Mount Henderson (Britannia Range)

Mount Henderson (-80.2°N, 156.21667°W) is a prominent mountain. It is 2,660 m high, and stands 5 nmi west of Mount Olympus in the Britannia Range of Antarctica. Discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04.

Location
Mount Henderson is in the western Britannia Range to the south of Derrick Peak and west of Mount Olympus and Mount McClintock. Mount Quackenbush is to the southeast.

Features
Nearby features include:

Mount Selby
-80.2°N, 156.38333°W. A mountain rising over 2,200 m high between Mount Henderson and Mount Olympus. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for M.J. Selby, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Selby was a member of field parties in Antarctica, 1969–70, 1971–72, and 1978–79, the last doing geological work in Britannia Range.

Tamarus Valley
-80.16667°N, 156.33333°W. Ice-free valley lying south of Sabrina Ridge and 2.5 nmi northeast of Mount Henderson. Named in association with Britannia by a University of Waikato (New Zealand) geological party, 1978–79, led by M.J. Selby. Tamarus is the historical name used in Roman Britain for the River Tamar.

Tisobis Valley
-80.18333°N, 156.33333°W. An ice-free valley just northeast of Mount Henderson. Named in association with Britannia by a University of Waikato geological party, 1978–79, led by M.J. Selby. Tisobis is a historical name used in Roman Britain for the Dwyryd River.

Krissek Peak
-80.21667°N, 155.95°W A sharp peak which rises to about 2500 m high on the southwest ridge from Mount Henderson. Named after geologist Lawrence A. Krissek of the Byrd Polar Research Center and Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, who worked many austral summers in the central Transantarctic Mountains beginning about 1985-86.