Mount Kershaw
| Mount Kershaw | ||
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| height | 1880 m | |
| location | Blaiklock Island , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 31 '54 " S , 66 ° 59' 9" W | |
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Mount Kershaw is a 1,180 m high mountain at the northeast end of Blaiklock Island in the Adelaide and Biscoe Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It towers over the Jones Ice Shelf and the Kosiba Wall .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the pilot John Edward Giles Kershaw (1948–1990), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey from 1974 to 1979 , including the Transglobe Expedition (1980–1982), was killed in a plane crash on the Jones Ice Shelf on March 5, 1990 and whose grave is at the foot of this mountain.
Web links
- Mount Kershaw in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kershaw on geographic.org (English)