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 Coordinates: 84 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  S , 167 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E

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

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Lockwood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Lockwood on geographic.org (English)