Mount Keltie
| Mount Keltie | ||
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| height | 2640 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Conway Range , Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Keltie is a 2640 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Conway Range , it looms halfway between Mount Kosko and Mount Chalmers .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. It is named after John Scott Keltie (1840–1927), Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1892 to 1915.
Web links
- Mount Keltie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Keltie on geographic.org (English)