Mount Westminster

Mount Westminster
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height	3370  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Supporters Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Ward is a 3370  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises about 7 km south of Mount Kinsey in the Supporters Range on the eastern flank of the Beardmore Glacier .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. It is named after Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953), a sponsor of the Nimrod expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Westminster in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Westminster on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Westminster. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 322 (English)