Mount Tyrrell

Mount Tyrrell
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height	1310 m
location	Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
Mountains	Arenite Ridge
Coordinates	69 ° 38 ′ 1 ″ S , 69 ° 30 ′ 43 ″ W Coordinates: 69 ° 38 ′ 1 ″ S , 69 ° 30 ′ 43 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Tyrrell is a 1310 m high mountain with double peaks on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 5 km inland from George VI Sound and near the mouth of the Toynbee Glacier .

The first aerial photos of the mountain were taken in 1937 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 geologist George Walter Tyrrell (1883–1961) from the University of Glasgow .

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