Mount Murray
| Mount Murray | ||
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| height | 1005 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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 Convoy Range map sheet from 1988, Mount Murray on the eastern edge of the map in the northern quarter |
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Mount Murray is a 1,005 m , scharfgratiger mountain of granite in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises eight miles west of Bruce Point in the Prince Albert Mountains on the north side of the Mawson Glacier .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the British biologist James Murray (1865–1914), a member of the expedition.
See also
Web links
- Mount Murray in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Murray on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Murray. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 220 (English)