Mount Reid

Mount Reid
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height	3315  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Holland Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Reid is a 3315  m high, mostly ice-free mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises at the head of the Cleaves Glacier in the Holland Range of the Transantarctic 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 businessman Alfred Reid (1861–1957), who was the managing director of the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Reid in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Reid on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Reid. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 255 (English)