Mount Kirkwood


Mount Kirkwood is a mountain, 460 m, standing 3 nautical miles west of Entrance Point in the south part of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. First charted by a British expedition 1828–31, under Foster. Named in 1950 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Commander Harry Kirkwood, Royal Navy, master of the John Biscoe in Antarctic waters, 1948–50.