Mount Mills (Antarctica)
| Mount Mills | ||
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| height | 2955 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Mills is a 2955 m high mountain on the northern edge of the Dominion Range in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about eight miles north of Mount Saunders on Beardmore Glacier .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the New Zealand entrepreneur James Mills (1847-1936), the founder of the Union Steam Ship Company .
See also
Web links
- Mount Mills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mills on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Mills. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 214 (English)