Mount Monteagle
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Mount Monteagle is a high, sharp peak
(2,780 m) standing 10 nautical miles (18 km) north of Cape Sibbald
in the Mountaineer Range
, Victoria Land
. It surmounts Aviator Glacier
to the west and the large cirque of Parker Glacier
to the east. Discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross who named this peak for Baron Monteagle
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1835-39.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
(2,780 m) standing 10 nautical miles (18 km) north of Cape Sibbald
Cape Sibbald
Cape Sibbald is a cliffed cape at the southwest margin of Lady Newnes Bay on the coast of Victoria Land. It marks the southwest extremity of the Mountaineer Range at the terminus of Aviator Glacier. Sighted in February 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for Lieutenant John Sibbald of...
in the Mountaineer Range
Mountaineer Range
Mountaineer Range is the range of mountains lying between the Mariner and Aviator Glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The seaward parts of the range were first viewed by Ross in 1841, and subsequently by several British and later American expeditions. The precise mapping of its overall features...
, Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It surmounts Aviator Glacier
Aviator Glacier
Aviator Glacier is major valley glacier, over 60 miles long and 5 miles wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms the Aviator Glacier Tongue...
to the west and the large cirque of Parker Glacier
Parker Glacier
Parker Glacier is a valley glacier in the Mountaineer Range of Victoria Land which drains the area just east and northeast of Mount Monteagle, and flows south to Lady Newnes Bay where it terminates in a floating glacier tongue adjacent to Andrus Point. Mapped by United States Geological Survey ...
to the east. Discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross who named this peak for Baron Monteagle
Baron Monteagle
Baron Monteagle or Baron Mount Eagle is a title that has been created three times; in the Peerage of England, in the Peerage of Ireland and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom....
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1835-39.