Mount Stephenson

Mount Stephenson
British Antarctic Territory
Range:	Douglas Range
	Alexander Island
Summit:	10,171 feet 69°43’5"S, 69°49’18"W

Mount Stephenson, at 10171 feet, is the highest mountain on Alexander Island in the British Antarctic Territory. It is in the Douglas Range in the north-east of the island.

The mountain stands at head of Sedgwick Glacier. It was probably sighted by the French Antarctic Expedition on 21 January 1909, but definitively it was seen from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition 13 March 1936, and surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition on its east face in October-November 1936, and sketched from the air on its west face on 1 February 1937. In 1948 the mountain as re-surveyed on its east face by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Stonington Island in 1948.

The mountain is named after Alfred Stephenson (1908-1999), senior surveyor with the British Graham Land Expedition.

References

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