Mount Marshall

Mount Marshall
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height	3160  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Marshall is a 3160  m high and prominent mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 6.5 km southeast of Blizzard Peak in the Marshall Mountains of the Queen Alexandra range in the Transantarctic Mountains .

The four-man southern group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the British doctor Eric Marshall (1879–1963), who belonged to the southern group.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

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