Mount Bagshawe
| Mount Bagshawe | ||
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| height | 2200 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Batterbee Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 25 '27 " S , 67 ° 11' 39" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Bagshawe is a 2200 m high mountain in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the southernmost and highest mountain of the Batterbee Mountains and rises 13 km east of the coast to George VI Sound .
The first sighting of the mountain was awarded to the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting aerial photographs were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. 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 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1954 after the British medic Arthur William Garrard Bagshawe (1871-1950), a tropical medicine expert, who had launched an appeal for donations to finance the biological equipment for the British Graham Land Expedition.
Web links
- Mount Bagshawe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bagshawe on geographic.org (English)