Elgar Uplands
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 37 ′ S , 70 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Elgar Uplands are a mountain range up to 1900 m high between the Tufts Pass in the north and the Sullivan Glacier in the south, which is located in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island .
The first aerial photographs were taken in 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. A further mapping was made using the Landsat recordings from February 1975. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the Uplands in 1961 after the British composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934).
Web links
- Elgar Uplands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Elgar Uplands on geographic.org (English)