Mount Cadbury

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Mount Cadbury
British Antarctic Territory
Range: Batterbee Mountains
Summit: 5,120 feet 71°21’46"S, 66°39’40"W

Mount Cadbury is the easternmost of the Batterbee Mountains of Palmer Land, in the British Antarctic Territory, it summit standing at 5,120 feet above sea level.

This mountain was probably seen from the air by Ellsworth on 23 November 1935. It was roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition in October 1936. It was re-surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island', 1948-49, and is named after Mrs Henry Tylor (Lucy) Cadbury, who raised a special fund to defray the cost of refitting Penola, the British Graham Land Expedition ship, at South Georgia in 1936. The mountain was further surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey in 1962-72.

References

  • Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mount Cadbury