Mount_McLennan_(Victoria_Land)

Mount McLennan (Victoria Land)

Mount McLennan (Victoria Land)

Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica

Mount McLennan is a prominent mountain rising over 1,600 metres (5,250 ft) at the north side of Taylor Valley, surmounting the area at the heads of Canada Glacier, Commonwealth Glacier and Loftus Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by C.S. Wright of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) for Professor McLennan, a physicist at Toronto University, Canada.[1]

Geologist Thomas E. Berg killed in helicopter crash (11/19/1969) on the side of Mount McLennan. New Zealand cameraman Jeremy Sykes also killed.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Mount McLennan". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  2. [2]
    Timeline of Antarctica

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount McLennan". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

77°35′S 162°56′E


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