Mount Priestley
| Mount Priestley | ||
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| height | 1100 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Priestley is a 1,100 m high mountain in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . It rises 8 km southwest of Mount Bellingshausen on the north side of the David Glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the British geologist Raymond Priestley (1886–1974), an expedition member and later participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
See also
Web links
- Mount Pristley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Priestley on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Pristley. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 248 (English)