Mount Shadow
| Mount Shadow | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | NZGSAE , January 1958 | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Shadow is a small mountain in the Admiralty Mountains in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It rises near the west side of the Shadow Bluff at the confluence of the Leander Glacier and the Tucker Glacier .
The first ascent was made in January 1958 by participants in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1957-1958), who named it based on the naming of the nearby Mount Midnight and the Shadow Bluff.
Web links
- Mount Shadow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Shadow on geographic.org (English)