Mount Saunders

Mount Saunders
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height	2895  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 85 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Saunders is a 2895  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It forms part of the western end of the Dominion Range in the Transantarctic Mountains and rises a little more than 7 km north-northwest of Mount Nimrod .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. Shackleton named the mountain after his friend, New Zealand journalist Edward Saunders (1882-1922), who was involved in the first draft of the expedition report under the title The Heart of the Antarctic .

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Saunders in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Saunders on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Saunders. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 271 (English)