Mount Tripp

Mount Tripp
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height	2980  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Holland Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Tripp is a 2980  m high, massive, conical and ice-covered mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Holland Range, it rises about 11 km west-northwest of Rhodes Peak between the Hoffman and Hewitt glaciers .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the New Zealander Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), who helped the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Tripp in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Tripp on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Tripp. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 307 (English)