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Mount Monteagle
Mount Monteagle
is a high,
sharp
peak
, high, standing
north
of
Cape Sibbald
in the
Mountaineer Range
of
Victoria Land
,
Antarctica
. It surmounts
Aviator Glacier
to
the west
and the large
cirque
of
Parker Glacier
to the
east
. The
mountain
was
discovered
in January 1841 by
Sir James Clark Ross
who named this peak for
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
from 1835 to 1839.
