Mount Nimrod

Mount Nimrod
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height	2835  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 85 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Nimrod is a 2835  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 6.5 km south-southeast of Mount Saunders in the Dominion Range .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the research ship Nimrod , which also gave the expedition its name.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Nimrod in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Nimrod on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Nimrod. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 226 (English)