- Mount Edred
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Mount Edred (70°35′S 69°0′W / 70.583°S 69°W) is a prominent ice-covered mountain, 2,195 m, which stands 10 nautical miles (18 km) inland from George VI Sound and marks the south limit of Douglas Range on Alexander Island. First photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth and mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Its east side was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) and resurveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the FIDS for Edred, Saxon king of England, 946-955. The west face of the mountain was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960.
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