Feature Name (see definition): Edgell, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 4302

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 69° 26' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 068° 16' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -69.4333333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -68.2666667

Elevation (see definition): 1675

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1947

Description (see definition): Mountain, 1,675 m, rising eastward of Cape Jeremy, the E side of the N entrance to George VI Sound, on the W coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Charcot, 1908-10. Seen from a great distance and thought to be an island, he named it "Ile Gordon Bennett" for James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918) of the New York Herald, who gave financial aid to the expedition. The British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, surveying this area in 1936-37 and finding no island, applied the name Mount Edgell to the feature now recognized as Charcot's "Ile Gordon Bennett." The name Mount Edgell, after Sir John Augustine Edgell, Hydrographer of the British Navy, 1932-45, has since become established through international usage.

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