Mount Bagshawe
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Mount Bagshawe is a southernmost and highest of the Batterbee Mountains
, 2,200 m, standing 8 nautical miles (15 km) inland from George VI Sound
on the west coast of Palmer Land
. The mountain
was first seen and photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth
, and was mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg. It was surveyed in 1936 by British Graham Land Expedition
(BGLE) under Rymill. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1954 after Sir Arthur W.G. Bagshawe (1871–1950), British authority on tropical medicine, who raised a special fund to defray the expenses of biological equipment for BGLE, 1934-37.
Batterbee Mountains
The Batterbee Mountains are a group of prominent mountains rising to , which forms part of the dissected edge of Dyer Plateau overlooking George VI Sound, on the west coast of Palmer Land...
, 2,200 m, standing 8 nautical miles (15 km) inland from 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...
. The mountain
Mountain
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was first seen and photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 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...
, and was mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg. It was surveyed in 1936 by 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) under Rymill. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1954 after Sir Arthur W.G. Bagshawe (1871–1950), British authority on tropical medicine, who raised a special fund to defray the expenses of biological equipment for BGLE, 1934-37.