Mount Priestley (Antarctica)
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Mount Priestley is a mountain
, 1100 metres (3,608.9 ft), rising at the north side of David Glacier
, 5 nautical miles (9 km) southwest of Mount Bellingshausen
, in the Prince Albert Mountains
of Victoria Land
. First mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition
, 1907–09, which named it for Raymond (later Sir Raymond) E. Priestley
, geologist with the expedition, who was later a member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13.
Mountain
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, 1100 metres (3,608.9 ft), rising at the north side of David Glacier
David Glacier
David Glacier is the most imposing outlet glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica, fed by two main flows which drain an area larger than 200,000 square kilometres of the East Antarctic plateau, with an estimated ice discharge rate of 7.8 +/- 0.7 km³/year...
, 5 nautical miles (9 km) southwest of Mount Bellingshausen
Mount Bellingshausen
Mount Bellingshausen is a conspicuous cone-shaped mountain, 1,380 m, standing 5 nautical miles northeast of Mount Priestley between Larsen and David Glaciers, in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition, 1901–04, led by Scott, and named by him after...
, in the Prince Albert Mountains
Prince Albert Mountains
The Prince Albert Mountains are a major mountain group in Antarctica over 320 km long. Located in Victoria Land, they run north-south between the Priestley and Ferrar glaicers....
of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. First mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition
Nimrod Expedition
The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole...
, 1907–09, which named it for Raymond (later Sir Raymond) E. Priestley
Raymond Priestley
Sir Raymond Edward Priestley was a British geologist and early Antarctic explorer.-Biography:Raymond Priestley was born in Bredon's Norton,Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1886, the second son and second of eight children of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of Tewkesbury grammar school, and his...
, geologist with the expedition, who was later a member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13.