Mount McLennan (Victoria Land)

{{short description|Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica}}

Mount McLennan is a prominent mountain rising over {{Convert|1,600|m|-1}} at the north side of Taylor Valley, surmounting the area at the heads of Canada Glacier, Commonwealth Glacier and Loftus Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by C.S. Wright of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) for Professor McLennan, a physicist at Toronto University, Canada.

Geologist Thomas E. Berg killed in helicopter crash (11/19/1969) on the side of Mount McLennan. New Zealand cameraman Jeremy Sykes also killed.[https://antarctic.homestead.com/timeline.html Timeline of Antarctica]

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Category:Mountains of Victoria Land

Category:McMurdo Dry Valleys

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