Mount Iveagh

Mount Iveagh
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height	3422 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Supporters Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 85 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Iveagh is a 3422 m high and massive mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Supporters Range of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 8 km northeast of Mount White on the eastern flank of the Mill Glacier .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him. The mountain is named after Irish businessman and philanthropist Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927), a private donor to support the expedition.

Web links

Mount Iveagh in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Mount Iveagh on geographic.org (English)
Mount Iveagh. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 170 (English)