Mount Mackellar

Mount Mackellar
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height	4295  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Mackellar is a 4295  m high and massive mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 5 km southeast of Pagoda Peak at the head of the Mackellar Glacier in the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after Campbell Duncan Mackellar (1859–1925), a private donor to support the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Mackellar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Mackellar on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Mackellar. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 200 (English)