geo.wikisort.org - MountainsMount Mackintosh is an Antarctic mountain, at 74°20′S 162°15′E,[1] and is the northernmost peak in the Prince Albert Mountains range, within the Transantarctic Mountains. The range was discovered in 1841 by James Clark Ross and was extensively explored during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Mount Mackintosh, which rises to 8,097 feet (2468 m.).[2]
Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
Charted by the British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod Expedition) (1907–09) under Shackleton,[3] was named by Shackleton after Aeneas Mackintosh, the Scottish-born Second Officer on the expedition ship - the Nimrod,[3] and later leader of the Ross Sea party during Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17. Mackintosh disappeared on 8 May 1916 while walking on the ice in McMurdo Sound, between Hut Point and Cape Evans.[4]
Notes and references
- New Zealand Heritage; Mackintosh on-line biographical details
- On-line Britannica, Prince Albert Mountains
- "Mount Mackintosh". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- Bickel, pp. 209–13
Sources
- Bickel, Lennard: Shackleton's Forgotten Men Pimlico, London 2001 ISBN 0-7126-6807-1
- Britannica on-line at :Article on Prince Albert Mountains, accessed 18 April 2008
- New Zealand Heritage at : Mackintosh biographical details, accessed 18 April 2008
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[de] Mount Mackintosh
Mount Mackintosh ist ein 2300 m hoher Berg im ostantarktischen Viktorialand. Im Skinner Ridge am Westrand der Eisenhower Range ragt er 2 km südwestlich des Mount Fenton auf.
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[fr] Mont Mackintosh
Le mont Mackintosh est une montagne du chaînon Eisenhower, le plus septentrional de la chaîne du Prince-Albert, dans la chaîne Transantarctique en Antarctique.
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