Mount Kelsey
| Mount Kelsey | ||
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| height | 1370 m | |
| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 26 ′ 53 ″ S , 22 ° 18 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Kelsey is a 1370 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It looms between the M'Clintock Bastion and Blanchard Hill in the Pioneers Escarpment of the Shackleton Range .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1972 after Henry Kelsey (≈1670–1724), who in 1691 as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company was the first European to adopt the locomotion and survival techniques of the North American Indians, including the consumption of pemmican .
Web links
- Mount Kelsey in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kelsey on geographic.org (English)