Mount Kathleen

Mount Kathleen
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height	900  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Kathleen is a mountain in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . With a height of around 900  m it is the highest peak of the Ebony Ridge at the northern end of the Commonwealth Range in the Transantarctic Mountains .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after Shackleton's eldest sister Kathleen Shackleton (1884–1961).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Kathleen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Kathleen on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Kathleen. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 176 (English)