Batterbee Mountains
| Batterbee Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Bagshawe ( 2200 m ) | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 26 ′ S , 67 ° 20 ′ W | |
The Batterbee Mountains are a group of prominent mountains of up to 2200 m height on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They form part of the fragmented fringes of the Dyer Plateau above George VI Sound .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth was awarded the first sighting during an overflight on November 23, 1935. A survey was carried out in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Namesake is Harry Fagg Batterbee (1880–1976), then Deputy Minister for the Dominions under James Henry Thomas and later High Commissioner of the United Kingdom in New Zealand . Batterbee chaired the committee in support of the British Graham Land Expedition.
Web links
- Batterbee Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Batterbee Mountains on geographic.org (English)