Mount McIntosh
| Mount McIntosh | ||
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| height | 2600 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount McIntosh is a turn 2600 m high mountain on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises in the western part of the Kyle Hills at the northwest end of Lofty Promenade and 2.5 km east of the summit of Mount Terror . The mountain is striking due to the diagonal bands of ice and rock on the north flank.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle after the American geologist William C. McIntosh, who, like Kyle, works at the New Mexico Institute of Mines and Technology in Socorro and with the latter between 1977 and in 1999 took part in 15 field research campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program, in particular to investigate Mount Erebus .
Web links
- Mount McIntosh in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount McIntosh on geographic.org (English)