Mount Kyffin

Mount Kyffin
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height	1670  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 48 '0 "  S , 171 ° 38' 0"  E Coordinates: 83 ° 48 '0 "  S , 171 ° 38' 0"  E

Mount Kyffin is a 1670  m high and striking red-brown mountain with a rock spur extending for almost 6.5 km in a northerly direction in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It protrudes into the eastern flank of the Beardmore Glacier on the northern edge of the Commonwealth Range .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. Shackleton named the mountain after his friend Evan Kyffin-Thomas (1866-1935), an Australian journalist.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Kyffin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Kyffin on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Kyffin. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 183-184 (English)