Mount Ida (Antarctica)
| Mount Ida | ||
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| height | 1565 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Ida is a 1565 m high, striking and non-iced mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises 3.2 km west of the Granite Pillars and immediately southeast of the face of the King Glacier .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after Ida Jane Rule, the future wife of Shackleton friend of New Zealand journalist Edward Saunders (1882-1922), who had helped this with the first draft of the expedition report entitled The Heart of the Antarctic .
See also
Web links
- Mount Ida in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ida on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Ida. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 168 (English)