Mount Athelstan
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Mount Athelstan () is a prominent, partly ice-covered mountain, 1,615 m, at the north side of Trench Glacier on a spur which extends east from Douglas Range on the east coast of Alexander Island. The east side of Douglas Range was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth, and this feature was mapped from the photos by W.L.G. Joerg. It was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1948 and 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and named by them for Athelstan, Saxon king of England, 924-937.
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