Mount Shackleton

Location of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Shackleton (65°13′S 63°56′W / 65.217°S 63.933°W / -65.217; -63.933) is a mountain, 1,465 m, with perpendicular cliffs facing west, standing 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Chaigneau Peak between Leay and Wiggins Glaciers on Kiev Peninsula, the west side of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot and named by him for Sir Ernest Shackleton.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Shackleton" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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