Mount Jennings
Highest point
Elevation2,800 m (9,200 ft)
Coordinates72°32′S 166°15′E / 72.533°S 166.250°E / -72.533; 166.250
Geography
LocationBorchgrevink Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Parent rangeBarker Range in the Victory Mountains

Mount Jennings is a peak rising to about 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) immediately south of Mount Roy in the Barker Range of the Victory Mountains, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Peter Jennings, a field assistant and mechanic with the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition Evans Névé field party, 1971–72.[1]

References

  1. "Jennings, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-07-24.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Jennings, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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