Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Mount Bagshawe

(Batterbee Mountains)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 71° 25' 27" S 67° 11' 39" W
highest (c. 2200m) of the Batterbee Mountains, George VI Sound, was first seen and photographed from the air by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935; surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition in October 1936; named after Sir Arthur William Garrard Bagshawe (1871-1950), British authority on tropical medicine and Director, Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, London, 1912-35, who raised a special fund at Woking to defray the expenses of biological equipment for the British Graham Land Expedition.