Mount Usher

Mount Usher
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height	2895  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Barton Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Usher is a prominent 2895  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Barton Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains, it towers over the south side of the Keltie Glacier about 6.5 km southwest of the formation zone of the Brandau Glacier .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the Australian doctor John Edward Usher (1854–1918), who advised the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Usher in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Usher on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Usher. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 311-312 (English)