Mount Bailey (Antarctica)

Mount Bailey
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height	1445 m
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	69 ° 58 ′ 27 ″ S , 63 ° 1 ′ 3 ″ W Coordinates: 69 ° 58 ′ 27 ″ S , 63 ° 1 ′ 3 ″ W

Mount Bailey is a 1445 m high mountain in the east of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises south of Anthony Glacier and 10 km west-northwest of Lewis Point .

Participants in a sled team on the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill made an initial mapping. A new mapping was carried out in 1947 by sled teams of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Expedition leader Finn Ronne named the mountain after Clay Wilson Bailey (1906-1994), member of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), the Ronne at the Equipment with radios was helpful.

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