Mount Joyce

Mount Joyce
View from David Glacier to the north face of Mount Joyce
height	1830  m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	75 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 75 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E
Map sheet with Mount Joyce south of the David Glacier

Mount Joyce is a striking, 1830  m high, domed mountain in the Prince Albert Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises eight miles northwest of Mount Howard .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the polar explorer Ernest Joyce (1875–1940), a participant in the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Joyce in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Joyce on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Joyce. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 175 (English)