Mount Sladen is a conspicuous pyramid-shaped mountain

Mountain

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, 890 m, standing 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) northeast of Saunders Point

Saunders Point

Saunders Point is the southern extremity of the small island lying between Amphibolite Point and Tophet Bastion, off the south coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. Charted by DI personnel from the Discovery II in 1933. Named for A. Saunders who was aboard Discovery II and...

 in eastern Coronation Island

Coronation Island

Coronation Island is the largest of the South Orkney Islands, long and from wide. The island extends in a general east-west direction, is mainly ice-covered and comprises numerous bays, glaciers and peaks, the highest rising to...

, in the South Orkney Islands

South Orkney Islands

The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a total area of about ....

. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948-49. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Dr. William J.L. Sladen of the FIDS, medical officer and biologist at Hope Bay

Hope Bay

Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....

 in 1948, and at Signy Island

Signy Island

Signy Island is a small sub-antarctic island in the South Orkney Islands group locted at . It is about long and wide and rises to above sea level. Much of the island is permanently covered with ice. The average temperature range is to about in winter...

 in 1950. During the 1960s and 1970s, Dr. Sladen was chief United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) investigator concerned with studies of penguins at Cape Crozier

Cape Crozier

Cape Crozier is the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 during James Clark Ross's expedition with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was named after Francis Crozier, captain of HMS Terror...

, Ross Island

Ross Island

Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...

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