Mount Gleadell

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Mount Gleadell
height 560  m
location Enderbyland , East Antarctica
Mountains Tula Mountains
Coordinates 66 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 66 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Gleadell (Antarctica)
Mount Gleadell

Mount Gleadell is a 560  m high, conical and ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is the highest point on the east side of Amundsen Bay north of Observation Island .

Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) sighted the mountain in October 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Jeffrey Desmond Gleadell (* 1911), cook on Mawson Station in 1954.

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