The Batterbee Mountains are a group of prominent mountains rising to 2200 metres (7,217.8 ft), which forms part of the dissected edge of Dyer Plateau

Dyer Plateau

Dyer Plateau is a broad ice-covered upland of north-central Palmer Land, bounded to the north by Fleming Glacier and Bingham Glacier, and to the south by the Gutenko Mountains. The plateau was first explored on land and photographed from the air by the US Antarctic Service , 1939-41. Named after...

 overlooking George VI Sound

George VI Sound

George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles long in the shape of the letter J, which skirts the east and south shores of Alexander Island, separating it from the...

, on the west coast of Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. First seen and photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 on November 23, 1935, they were charted from the ground in October 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 under Rymill, and named after Sir Harry Batterbee

Harry Batterbee

Sir Harry Batterbee GCMG KCVO MA was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat and first British High Commissioner to New Zealand.-Early life:Harry Batterbee was born in 1880 in Faversham in his parents' house at 62 Newton Road...

 (1880–1976), Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office, 1930–38, and Chairman of the Polar Committee in 1934, who gave help to the expedition.