Mount Raymond

Mount Raymond
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height	2820  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Grosvenor Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 53 '0 "  S , 174 ° 43' 0"  E Coordinates: 85 ° 53 '0 "  S , 174 ° 43' 0"  E

Mount Raymond is a 2820  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 4 km southeast of Mount Cecily at the southern end of the Grosvenor Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him and erroneously located him in the Dominion Range . It is named after Shackleton's older of two sons, Raymond Swinford Shackleton (1905–1960).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Raymond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Raymond on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Raymond. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 254 (English)