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Shackleton named the hill that provided this vantage point "Mount Hope", for the promise that it provided. Shackleton's party ascended the glacier to the plateau, but turned back before reaching the Pole. Three years later, Captain Scott's party followed the same route and reached the Pole, but the entire party perished on the return.
Mount Hope, New York, a town in Orange County, New York; Mount Hope, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Holmes County; Mount Hope, Licking County, Ohio, a ghost town; Mount Hope, Pennsylvania, birthplace of Ralph E. Urban; Mount Hope Estate, a property in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
Mount Hope is a mountain rising to 3,239 metres (10,627 ft), forming the central and highest peak of the Eternity Range in northern Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, a part of the British Antarctic Territory (with unrecognised claims by Chile and Argentina), over twice the size of Cerro Vinciguerra, the highest mountain from the Argentinian side of Tierra del Fuego.
Mount Hope was established in 1853 by two groups of Millennial Protestant Christians from Prussia and the United States. [3] The Prussian group of founders, most of them members of the Großsteinbeck family, emigrated to Palestine from Wuppertal , Germany, in November 1849.
Operation Mount Hope III was a top secret clandestine American military operation to capture a Soviet-made Mil Mi-25 "Hind-D" attack helicopter, an export model of the Soviet Mi-24. The aircraft had been abandoned in the conflict between Libya and Chad .
Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. [8] He was of German, English, and Irish descent. [9] Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck (1828–1913), Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, was a founder of Mount Hope, a short-lived farming colony in Palestine that disbanded after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law. [10]
Mount Hope is a small town on the Flinders Highway on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was the terminus of a branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway from Yeelanna from 1914 until but the line was closed and dismantled in 1966. [ 8 ]