Mount Shackleton
| Mount Shackleton | ||
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| height | 1465 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 12 '28 " S , 63 ° 55' 22" W | |
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Mount Shackleton ( French Pic Shackleton ) is a 1465 m (according to British data about 1300 m ) high mountain on the Graham coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . With its vertical cliffs facing west, it looms 4 km east of Chaigneau Peak between the Leay and Wiggins glaciers .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered him. Charcot named it after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the French name to English in 1959.
Web links
- Mount Shackleton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Shackleton on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Shackleton ( Memento of May 24, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), photo of the mountain on the James Caird Society website
