Mount Lysaght

Mount Lysaght
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height	3755  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 82 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Lysaght is a 3755  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 2.5 km north of Mount Markham in the northern part of the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. Shackleton named the mountain after his friend Gerald Stuart Lysaght (1868–1951).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

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