Mount Lloyd

Mount Lloyd
Image wanted
height	3210  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Holland Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Lloyd is a 3210  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Holland Range, it rises north of the Hewitt Glacier , 11 km north of Mount Miller and 20 km west of Mount Tripp .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The name has not been passed down. The presumed namesake is the Irish physicist Humphrey Lloyd (1800–1881).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Lloyd in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Lloyd on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Lloyd. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 195 (English)