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Mount Bagshawe is the tallest of the Batterbee Mountains at 7,200 ft (2,200 m) high. It stands 8 nmi (15 km; 9.2 mi) inland from George VI Sound. It was first photographed with the rest of the range by Ellsworth, and was mapped from these photographs by
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of George VI Sound. Its eastern shore borders the exposed rocks of the west coast of Palmer Land. In summer a considerable volume of water enters the lake from the ravine immediately north of Swine Hill. The hill and the lake were surveyed in 1948 by the
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Swine Hill is the southernmost of two rugged, rocky knolls, 1,800 ft (550 m) high, which stand 10 nmi (19 km) west-northwest of the summit of Mount Bagshawe on the west coast of Palmer Land. The hill overlooks Gadarene Lake, a
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on the summit. The names of these features comes from an incident where the expedition's sled dogs attempted to throw themselves and their sledge down the steep ice slopes into the water, which reminded the explorers of the Biblical
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The northernmost feature of the Batterbee Mountains are the Christie Peaks, a conspicuous group of sharp peaks located immediately south of the terminus of Ryder Glacier. The group was named for
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separated by passes, is located 5 nmi (9.3 km) north-northwest of Mount Cadbury, projecting into the south side of Ryder Glacier. It was named by UK-APC after the constellation of
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and separates the inland peaks such as Mount Ness and Mount Bagshawe from the coastal peaks along the western edge of Palmer Land and George VI Sound. It was named for
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Unless otherwise noted, these features were first photographed by Ellsworth, charted by the BGLE under Rymill, and named by the
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from 1970, and so named from a distinctive feature on the bluff resembling a horse's head. South of the Tindley Peaks is
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Further inland to the east, but not far south of the Christie Peaks, is Mount Unicorn, named after the constellation of
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are a group of prominent mountains rising to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft), which forms part of the dissected edge of
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The Batterbee Mountain range is split along its north–south axis by the Rowley Corridor, a pass which extends from
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sit outside the Batterbee Mountains, 7 nmi (13 km) northeast from Mount Cadbury.
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on 23 November 1935, they were charted from the ground in October 1936 by the
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4 nmi (7 km) south of Mount Bagshawe, between
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Index

Mount Ness
Dyer Plateau
George VI Sound
Palmer Land
Lincoln Ellsworth
British Graham Land Expedition
John Rymill
Harry Batterbee
Dominions Office
Polar Committee
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
Ryder Glacier
Conchie Glacier
David N. Rowley
British Antarctic Survey
Timothy J.C. Christie
British Antarctic Survey
Stonington Island
McArthur Glacier
Roger C. Tindley
Fossil Bluff
British Antarctic Survey
McArthur Glacier
meltwater
ice shelf
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
cairn
Gadarene swine
Monoceros
The Unicorn

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