Mount Shinn
Mount Shinn | ||
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Mount Shinn from the northeast |
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height | 4661 m | |
location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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First ascent | December 21, 1966 by Barry Corbet et al. a. | |
Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mt Shinn (4611) on the map sheet |
At 4661 m, Mount Shinn is the third highest mountain in Antarctica . In the Ellsworth Mountains of the West Antarctic Ellsworthland, it rises 6 km southeast of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range . It is also connected by a mountain pass to Mount Vinson, which towers south of it .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1961 after Conrad Selwyn Shinn (* 1922), a pilot in the United States Navy , who made the first landing at the geographic South Pole with a Douglas DC-3 on October 31, 1956 and who landed in January 1958 discovered this mountain during an aerial reconnaissance flight as part of the International Geophysical Year . The first ascent was on December 21, 1966 by Barry Corbet, Charles Hollister, Sam Silverstein and Richard Wahlstrom, members of Nick Clinch's expedition . This expedition achieved another five first ascent.
Web links
- Mount Shinn in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Shinn on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian S. Marts: American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. (pdf) Expedition report of the American Alpine Club . Retrieved July 26, 2010 (in English, archived at wikiwix.com).