Mount Jackling

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Mount Jackling
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Jackling (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Jackling (bottom left)

location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Jackling (Antarctica)
Mount Jackling
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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.

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