Mount Hayward
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Mount Hayward is a hill 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Mount Heine
on White Island
, in the Ross Archipelago
. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
(NZGSAE) (1958–59) for V. Hayward, a British member of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17), who lost his life in a blizzard on May 8, 1916 when he walked off the sea ice in McMurdo Sound
. Victor Hayward was born on the 23 October 1887 in Manor Park Road, Harlesden, North London.
Mount Heine
Mount Heine is a hill, 760 m, in the north part of White Island, in the Ross Archipelago. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for A.J. Heine, leader of their party who visited White Island. Heine, who climbed this hill, spent four summers and one winter in Antarctica,...
on White Island
White Island (Ross Archipelago)
White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago, long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition and so named by them because of the mantle of snow which covers it....
, in the Ross Archipelago
Ross Archipelago
Ross Archipelago is a convenient name for that group of islands which, together with the ice shelf between them, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of McMurdo Sound. The most northerly is Beaufort Island, then comes Ross Island, the Dellbridge Islands, and Black Island and White Island...
. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...
(NZGSAE) (1958–59) for V. Hayward, a British member of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17), who lost his life in a blizzard on May 8, 1916 when he walked off the sea ice in McMurdo Sound
McMurdo Sound
The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound opens into the Ross Sea to the north. The Royal Society Range rises from sea level to 13,205 feet on the western shoreline. The nearby McMurdo Ice Shelf scribes McMurdo Sound's southern boundary...
. Victor Hayward was born on the 23 October 1887 in Manor Park Road, Harlesden, North London.