Mount Patrick

Mount Patrick
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height	2380  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Patrick is a massive, mostly ice-covered and 2380  m (according to New Zealand information 2316  m ) high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises in the Commonwealth Range on the east side of the Beardmore Glacier .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. Shackleton probably named him after his uncle Patrick Dudley Shackleton (1837-1901).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Patrick in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Patrick on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Patrick. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 236–237 (English)