Mount Oxford

Mount Oxford, a mountain on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut in the high Canadian Arctic, took its name from the University of Oxford and from the early university expeditions that explored this remote region. Its first known ascent occurred in 1935 during the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, when A. W. Moore, sometimes listed as Morris, climbed it with Nukapinguaq, a Greenlandic Inuk. Moore estimated the height at 9,000 feet, or 2,743 metres, but an accurate elevation was not established until 1957, when the mountain was climbed a second time during the International Geophysical Year. Its significance rests chiefly in this history of exploration and scientific expedition.

Nunavut · Canada