Mount Sladen

Mount Sladen
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height	890 m
location	Coronation Island , South Orkney Islands
Coordinates	60 ° 40 ′ 59 ″ S , 45 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ W Coordinates: 60 ° 40 ′ 59 ″ S , 45 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ W

Mount Sladen is a 890 m high, prominent and pyramidal mountain in the eastern part of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It rises 2.5 km northeast of Saunders Point .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed the mountain between 1948 and 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after William Joseph Lambart Sladen (1920–2017), doctor and biologist for FIDS in Hope Bay in 1948 and on Signy Island in 1950, who worked in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the framework of the United States Antarctic Research Program was in charge of investigating the Adelia and Emperor penguins at Cape Crozier on Ross Island .

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