Mount Shackleton

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Mount Shackleton
height 1465  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 65 ° 12 '28 "  S , 63 ° 55' 22"  W Coordinates: 65 ° 12 '28 "  S , 63 ° 55' 22"  W
Mount Shackleton (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Shackleton

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.

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