Mount McLennan (Victoria Land)

Mount McLennan
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height	1600 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount McLennan is a striking, more than 1600 m (according to New Zealand information 1770 m ) high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range on the north side of the Taylor Valley, it towers over the head ends of the Canada Glacier , the Commonwealth Glacier and the Loftus Glacier .

The Canadian physicist Charles Seymour Wright (1887–1975), participant in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), named the mountain after John McLennan (1876–1935), a physicist at the University of Toronto . The mountain was the site of a helicopter crash on November 19, 1969, in which two employees of the United States Antarctic Research Program were killed.

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