Mount Shackleton

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Mount Shackleton (65°13′S, 63°56′W) is a mountain, 1,465 m, with perpendicular cliffs facing west, standing 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Chaigneau Peak between Leay and Wiggins Glaciers, on the west side of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, under Charcot and named by him for Sir Ernest Shackleton.

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