Mount Lee (Antarctica)

Mount Lee
	Topographic map of the Beethoven and Harris Peninsula (center) with Mount Lee
height	591 m
location	Alexander I Island , Antarctica
Coordinates	71 ° 33 ′ 30 ″ S , 74 ° 6 ′ 18 ″ W Coordinates: 71 ° 33 ′ 30 ″ S , 74 ° 6 ′ 18 ″ W

Mount Lee is a 591 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee around 500 m ) high mountain in the southwestern part of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . He stands in the middle of the Beethoven Peninsula belonging Harris Peninsula on.

Participants of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) discovered it and made a rough map. Expedition leader Finn Ronne named the mountain after Rear Admiral Paul Frantz Lee of the United States Navy , who authorized the transports for the expedition by sea. The aerial photographs taken during Ronne's research trip were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for a new mapping. Further mapping was carried out by the United States Geological Survey using aerial photographs taken by the US Navy from 1967 to 1968 and Landsat photographs from 1972 to 1973.

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