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Mount Mackintosh

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Mount Mackintosh is an Antarctic mountain, at74°20′S 162°15′E, 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.), 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.

Map of Mount Mackintosh, Antarctica

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