Mount Vernon Harcourt
| Mount Vernon Harcourt | ||
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| height | 1570 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Vernon Harcourt is a 1570 m high and conspicuously conical mountain on the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the south-central part of the Hallett Peninsula .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him in January 1841 during his Antarctic expedition (1839-1843). He named it after the British theologian and scientist William Vernon Harcourt (1789–1871), one of the founding fathers of the British Association .
Web links
- Mount Vernon Harcourt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Vernon Harcourt on geographic.org (English)