Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Mount Stephenson

(Douglas Range)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 69° 49' 18" S 69° 43' 5" W
highest peak (c.3100m) in Douglas Range, E Alexander Island, at head of Sedgwick Glacier, was probably sighted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, on 21 January 1909; seen from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition, 13 March 1936; surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition on its E face, October-November 1936, and sketched from the air on its W face, 1 February 1937; photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947; re-surveyed on its E face by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in 1948; named after Alfred Stephenson (1908-1999), senior surveyor with the British Graham Land Expedition and with the British Arctic Air Route Expedition; mapped from the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition air photographs by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959.