Mount Lockwood
Mount Lockwood | ||
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 84 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Lockwood is a prominent mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises 8 km south of Mount Bell and forms a section of the eastern flank of the Grindley Plateau .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the British surgeon Charles Barett Lockwood (1856-1914), who was friends with the chief expedition doctor Eric Marshall .
See also
Web links
- Mount Lockwood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lockwood on geographic.org (English)