Elgar Uplands
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Elgar Uplands are uplands rising to 1,900 m, between Tufts Pass
Tufts Pass
Tufts Pass is a pass extending in an east-west direction between Rouen Mountains and Elgar Uplands in the north part of Alexander Island. First seen from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937...

 to the north and Sullivan Glacier
Sullivan Glacier
Sullivan Glacier is a glacier flowing west into Gilbert Glacier, immediately south of Elgar Uplands in the north part of Alexander Island. First seen from a distance by the British Graham Land Expedition during a flight in 1937 and roughly mapped...

 to the south, in the north part of Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. First photographed from the air and roughly mapped 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...

 (BGLE) in 1937. Remapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960, and from U.S. Landsat imagery of February, 1975. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), English composer.
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