Mount Irving

Mount Irving (left)

Mount Irving is with 1950 m or 1924 m above sea level, the highest mountain in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. It is situated on Clarence Iceland in the far northeast of the island group. Is named the collection after Edmund George Irving (1910-1990), a hydrographer to the Royal Navy.

The first ascent succeeded in a British expedition under the leadership of Malcolm Burley on December 6, 1970.

Sources and links

  • Mount Irving, on Peakbagger.com (English)
  • Mount Irving in the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (English)
  • William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC -CLIO, Santa Barbara 2003, ISBN 1576074234, page 148
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