Mount Humphrey Lloyd
| Mount Humphrey Lloyd | ||
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| height | 2975 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Humphrey Lloyd is a prominent and 2975 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains , it forms the main part of the watershed between the head ends of the Towles and Manhaul glaciers .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered it in 1841. Ross named it after the Irish physicist Humphrey Lloyd (1800-1881), who had supported the magnetic and meteorological investigations in Ross' Antarctic expedition (1839-1843).
Web links
- Mount Humphrey Lloyd in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Humphrey Lloyd on geographic.org (English)