Mount Aurora
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Mount Aurora () is a round-topped volcanic summit, 1,040 m, the highest point on Black Island in the Ross Archipelago. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1958-59) after the Aurora, the vessel which conveyed the Ross Sea Party of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17) to McMurdo Sound.
This article incorporates text from Mount Aurora, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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