Mount Deeley

Mount Deeley
Image wanted
height	2150  m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	67 ° 1 '59 "  S , 66 ° 12' 58"  W Coordinates: 67 ° 1 '59 "  S , 66 ° 12' 58"  W

Mount Deeley is a 2150  m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 2155  m ) high mountain on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 10 km northeast of Salmon Cove .

Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British geologist Richard Mountfort Deeley (1855–1954), who had carried out important studies on the structure and flow properties of glaciers .

Web links

• Mount Deeley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Deeley on geographic.org (English)