Mount Howard (Antarctica)
| Mount Howard | ||
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| height | 1460 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Howard is a 1460 m high, dark rocky and rounded mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises about 13 km southeast of Mount Joyce in the Prince Albert Mountains .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. Scott named him after Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden , who had helped him test transport sleds for the expedition.
Web links
- Mount Howard in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Howard on geographic.org (English)