Mount Shinn

Mount Shinn
	Mount Shinn from the northeast
height	4661 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W
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

^ 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).