Feature Name (see definition): Taylor, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 15020

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 26' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 057° 08' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.4333333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -57.1333333

Elevation (see definition): 1000

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1952

Description (see definition): Large, flat-topped mountain, 1,000 m, having steep cliffs on the NE side, standing 2.5 mi WSW of the head of Hope Bay at the NE end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Nordenskjold. The mountain was charted by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946 and named in 1948 by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) for Captain A. Taylor, commander of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and leader of its base at Hope Bay in 1945.

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