Mount Jackling
Mount Jackling | ||
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Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Jackling (bottom left) |
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Rockefeller Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Jackling is a mountain in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises in the Rockefeller Mountains 1.5 km south of Mount Frazier .
It was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . He received his name in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), also led by Byrd . The naming background has not survived.
Web links
- Mount Jackling in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Jackling on geographic.org (English)