Mount Tilley
| Mount Tilley | ||
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| height | 1900 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Arenite Ridge | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 45 ′ 11 ″ S , 69 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Tilley is a 1900 m high mountain with a flattened and snow-capped summit in the east of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 11 km south of Mount Tyrrell and 5 km inland from George VI Sound .
The first aerial photos of the mountain were taken in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey in 1948. It is named after the British mineralogist and petrologist Cecil Edgar Tilley (1894–1974) from the University of Cambridge .
Web links
- Mount Tilley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Tilley on geographic.org (English)