Mount Ethelred

Mount Ethelred
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height	2470 m
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	Douglas Range
Coordinates	70 ° 6 ′ 49 ″ S , 69 ° 32 ′ 17 ″ W Coordinates: 70 ° 6 ′ 49 ″ S , 69 ° 32 ′ 17 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Ethelred is a 2,470 m high and mostly icy mountain on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . In the Douglas Range it rises 5 km southeast of Mount Ethelwulf .

The mountain was probably first sighted during the transantarctic flight of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935. 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. 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). The mountain is named after Æthelred I (837–871), King of Wessex from 865 to 871.

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