Mount Jacklyn
| Mount Jacklyn | ||
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| height | 1557 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Jacklyn is a 1,557 m high and conical mountain peak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the eastern part of the Athos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises from a horseshoe-shaped mountain ridge 1.5 km south of the Farley Massif . Only 300 m of its total height are visible beyond the ice masses surrounding it.
Participants in a campaign from 1956 to 1957 led by the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited the mountain for the first time and named it. It is named after the physicist Robert Mainwaring Jacklyn (* 1922), who studied cosmic rays at Mawson Station in 1956 .
Web links
- Mount Jacklyn in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Jacklyn on geographic.org (English)