- For mountains named Mount Terror, see Mount Terror
Mount Terror can refer to:* Mount Terror * Mount Terror , United States...
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Mount Terror is a large
shield volcanoA shield volcano is a large volcano with shallow-sloping sides. Shield volcanoes are formed from fluid lava that can travel long distances across slight inclines, resulting in their relatively flat, broad profile...
that forms the eastern part of
Ross IslandRoss Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. Because of the persistent presence of the ice sheet, the island is sometimes taken to be part of Antarctica. Its area is 2,460 km² ; only a small...
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. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under
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. It is the second largest of the three volcanoes which make up Ross Island and is somewhat overshadowed by its neighbor,
Mount ErebusMount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost historically active volcano on Earth. With a summit elevation of , it is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Mount Terror...
, to the west. Mt. Terror was named in 1841 by Sir
James Clark RossSir James Clark Ross , was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica.-Arctic explorer:...
for his second ship, the
HMS TerrorHMS Terror was a bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in the Davy shipyard in Topsham, Devon. The ship, variously listed as being of either 326 or 340 tons, carried two mortars, one and one .-War service:...
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- For mountains named Mount Terror, see Mount Terror
Mount Terror can refer to:* Mount Terror * Mount Terror , United States...
.
Mount Terror is a large
shield volcanoA shield volcano is a large volcano with shallow-sloping sides. Shield volcanoes are formed from fluid lava that can travel long distances across slight inclines, resulting in their relatively flat, broad profile...
that forms the eastern part of
Ross IslandRoss Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. Because of the persistent presence of the ice sheet, the island is sometimes taken to be part of Antarctica. Its area is 2,460 km² ; only a small...
,
Antarctica| style="border-top:solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align:top;" | 14,000,000 km
2 280,000 km
2 13,720,000 km
2 |-! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;...
. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under
snowSnow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. Snowflakes...
and
iceIce is a solid phase, usually crystalline, of a non-metallic substance that is liquid or gas at room temperature, such as carbon dioxide ice , ammonia ice, or methane ice. However, the predominant use of the term ice is for water ice, technically restricted to one of the 15 known crystalline phases...
. It is the second largest of the three volcanoes which make up Ross Island and is somewhat overshadowed by its neighbor,
Mount ErebusMount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost historically active volcano on Earth. With a summit elevation of , it is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Mount Terror...
, to the west. Mt. Terror was named in 1841 by Sir
James Clark RossSir James Clark Ross , was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica.-Arctic explorer:...
for his second ship, the
HMS TerrorHMS Terror was a bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in the Davy shipyard in Topsham, Devon. The ship, variously listed as being of either 326 or 340 tons, carried two mortars, one and one .-War service:...
. The Captain of the Terror was Captain Francis Moria Rawden Crozier who was agreat friend of Ross
The rocks at the summit have not been studied, but lower areas have been studied and rocks from those areas range from 0.82 to 1.75 million years old. Mount Terror shows no signs of volcanic activity more recent than that.
The first ascent of Mt. Terror was made by a
New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
party in 1959.
Terror Point (77°41′S 168°13′E), located just below Mt. Terror, is the eastern limit of Fog Bay, WNW of Cape MacKay on Ross Island. The name was first used by members of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, and was apparently applied in association with Mt. Terror which overlooks this point from the northeast.