Mount Raymond () is a rock
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
, 2,820 m, standing on the southernmost ridge of the
Grosvenor Mountains
The Grosvenor Mountains () are a group of widely scattered mountains and nunataks rising above the Antarctic polar plateau east of the head of Mill Glacier, extending from Mount Pratt in the north to the Mount Raymond area in the south, and from ...
, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) southeast of
Mount Cecily
Mount Cecily () is a prominent peak, high, standing northwest of Mount Raymond, in the Grosvenor Mountains. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, and named for Shackleton's daughter. The position agrees with that sh ...
. Discovered by
Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of ...
of the
British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09), who named this feature for his eldest son. The position agrees with that shown on Shackleton's map, but the peak does not lie in the
Dominion Range
The Dominion Range () is a broad mountain range, about long, forming a prominent salient at the juncture of the Beardmore and Mill glaciers in Antarctica. The range is part of the Queen Maud Mountains
The range was discovered by the British Ant ...
as he thought, being separated from that range by
Mill Glacier
Mill Glacier is a tributary glacier, wide, flowing northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, and named for Hugh Robert Mill ...
.
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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