Mount Sanderson

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Mount Sanderson
height 2300  m
location Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains Rouen Mountains
Coordinates 69 ° 16 ′ 27 ″  S , 70 ° 42 ′ 40 ″  W Coordinates: 69 ° 16 ′ 27 ″  S , 70 ° 42 ′ 40 ″  W
Mount Sanderson (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Sanderson
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Sanderson is a 2300  m high mountain in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises to the south of the Rouen Mountains .

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) surveyed the mountain between 1975 and 1976. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after the British glaciologist Timothy John Oliver Sanderson (* 1954), who worked for the BAS from 1975 to 1978 and was involved in the exploration of the George VI Ice Shelf .

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