Mount Mackintosh

Mount Mackintosh
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height	2300  m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Eisenhower Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	74 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 74 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Mackintosh is a 2300  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In Skinner Ridge on the western edge of the Eisenhower Range, it rises 2 km southwest of Mount Fenton .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him. The mountain is named after the British polar explorer Aeneas Mackintosh (1879-1916), participant of the expedition and later leader of the so-called Ross Sea Party during Shackleton's Endurance Expedition (1914-1917).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Mackintosh in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Mackintosh on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Mackintosh. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 201 (English)