Talk:Mount Mackintosh

Puzzling information
The first version of this article, started by read: "Mount Mackintosh is an Antarctic mountain, at 74°20′S 162°15′E, and is the northernmost peak in the Prince Albert Mountains range, within the Transantarctic Mountains. The range was discovered in 1841 by James Clark Ross and was extensively explored during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Mount Mackintosh, which rises to 8,097 feet (2468 m.), was named after Aeneas Mackintosh, the Scottish-born leader of the Ross Sea party during Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17. Mackintosh disappeared on 8 May 1916 while walking on the ice between Hut Point and Cape Evans."

This disagrees with the GNIS / Alberts(1995) description, which reads: "Mackintosh, Mount 74°22'S, 161°49'E A peak (2,300 m) that rises from Skinner Ridge, 2 mi SW of Mount Fenton, on the western margin of the Eisenhower Range of Victoria Land. Charted by the BrAE (1907-09) under Ernest Shackleton, who named it for A.L.A. Mackintosh, Second Officer on the expedition ship, the Nimrod."

The Eisenhower Range is in the Prince Albert Mountains, and it is the northernmost peak. Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh seem correct for the name. But the coordinates and height are different, and it seems very unlikely that Ross would have found the mountain, which is quite far inland. Shackleton visited and named it in 1907–09, not 1914–17.

I have just redirected to Reeves Glacier, where the "standard" USGS description is given. But it is puzzling. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:49, 28 January 2024 (UTC)