M'Clintock Bastion () is a mountain rising to about to the west of Mount Kelsey in the

Pioneers Escarpment Pioneers Escarpment () is a mostly snow-covered north-facing escarpment, interrupted by occasional bluffs and spurs, between Slessor Glacier on the north and Shotton Snowfield on the south, in the Shackleton Range. The escarpment was photographe ...

, Shackleton Range, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967, and was surveyed by the

British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

in the period 1968–71. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy, a British Arctic explorer and pioneer in adopting Eskimo methods of overland travel; he took part in three Franklin search voyages, 1848–54, and commanded the ''

Fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

'', 1857–59, on the voyage to Arctic Canada that finally determined the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition.

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