Mount Marston

Mount Marston
Mt Marston in the southwest area of ​​the map sheet
height	1245  m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	76 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 76 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Marston is a 1245  m high mountain in the shape of a whale back on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises about 5 km north of the formation area of ​​the Mackay Glacier on the north side of the Kar 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 painter and graphic artist George Marston (1882–1940), a member of the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Marston in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Marston on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Marston. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 205 (English)