Mount Huggins

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Huggins
height 3735  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Huggins (Antarctica)
Mount Huggins
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Huggins is a 3735  m high and conical mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it towers over the formation zones of the Allison Glacier , the Dale Glacier and the Potter Glacier .

Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. Scott named him after the astronomer and physicist William Huggins (1824-1910), President of the Royal Society from 1900 to 1905.

Web links