
Mount Ethelred
(Douglas Range)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 70° 6' 49" S 69° 32' 17" W
rising to c. 2250m in Douglas Range, N Alexander Island, was probably seen from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition, 13 March 1936 and was roughly surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition from George VI Sound, October-November 1936; resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island', 1948-49; in association with the names of Saxon kings in this area, named after Ethelred I (d. 871), King of the West Saxons and Kentishmen, 866-71.