Mount Mackintosh

Mount Mackintosh is an Antarctic mountain, at74°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] was named after Aeneas Mackintosh, the Scottish-born 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.[3]

Not to be confused with Mount McIntosh.

Notes and references
  1. New Zealand Heritage; Mackintosh on-line biographical details
  2. On-line Britannica, Prince Albert Mountains
  3. 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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