Mount Ward (Dominion Range)
| Mount Ward | ||
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| height | 3213 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Ward is a 3213 m high and rocky mountain peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 5 km southeast of the Davis Nunatakker and around 14 km southeast of Mount Nimrod in the southern foothills of the Dominion Range .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. Shackleton named the summit after Joseph Ward (1856–1930), the Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time and supporter of the expedition.
See also
Web links
- Mount Ward in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ward on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Ward. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 318 (English)