Mount Morley

Mount Morley
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height	1550 m
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	Lassus Mountains
Coordinates	69 ° 40 ′ 4 " S , 71 ° 30 ′ 23" W Coordinates: 69 ° 40 ′ 4 " S , 71 ° 30 ′ 23" W

Mount Morley is a 1550 m high mountain in the northwest of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises in the southern part of the Lassus Mountains .

The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the English composer Thomas Morley (≈1557-1602).

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