Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Douglas Range

(Alexander Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 70° S 69° 34' 59" W
rising to c. 3100m at Mount Stephenson, between 69°20' and 70°40'S, N Alexander Island, was sighted in its N part by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, in January 1909, when the names Île Gordon Bennett and Île Guernesey were applied to unidentified peaks in the range, the true nature of the feature not being apparent; seen from the air in its S part by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935; seen from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition, 13 March 1936, and roughly mapped from the E side; named after Vice-Adm. Sir Henry Percy Douglas (1876-1939), Hydrographer of the Navy, 1924-32; member of the 'Discovery' Committee, 1928-39; Chairman, Advisory Committee for the British Graham Land Expedition. The range was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island', 1948-49. The range was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-7, and mapped from air photographs by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959.