Mount Bagshawe

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Mount Bagshawe
British Antarctic Territory
Range: Batterbee Mountains
Summit: 7,220 feet 71°25’27"S, 67°11’39"W

Mount Bagshawe, climbing to about 7,220 feet above sea level, is the highest of the Batterbee Mountains over looking the George VI Sound in the British Antarctic Territory

The mountain was first seen and photographed from the air by Ellsworth on 23 November 1935 and was surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition in October 1936. It was named after Sir Arthur William Garrard Bagshawe (1871-1950), British authority on tropical medicine and Director, Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, London, 1912-35, who raised a special fund at Woking to defray the expenses of biological equipment for expedition.

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