Mount Alfred

Mount Alfred
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height	2000 m
location	Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
Mountains	Douglas Range
Coordinates	70 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 69 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 70 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 69 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Alfred is a more than 2000 m high mountain with an icy summit on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 9 km inland from George VI Sound and 13 km south of Mount Athelstan in the Douglas Range .

The mountain was first photographed during the transantarctic flight of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935. These aerial photos were used by the US geographer WLG Joerg for an initial mapping. The eastern flank was roughly measured in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey in 1948 and 1949. The British geographer Derek Searle mapped the western flank of the mountain in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). It is named after Alfred the Great (848 / 849–899), King of the Anglo-Saxons .

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