Mount Monteagle
| Mount Monteagle | ||
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| height | 2780 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mountaineer Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Monteagle is a 2780 m high mountain with a pointed summit in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Mountaineer Range it is 16 km north of Cape Sibbald . It towers over the Aviator Glacier in the west and the large basin of the Parker Glacier in the east.
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him in January 1841 during his Antarctic expedition (1839-1843). He named the mountain after Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1790–1866), British Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.
Web links
- Mount Monteagle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Monteagle on geographic.org (English)