The Eland Mountains () are a range of mountains which rise above and extend about in a northeast–southwest direction along the south side of

Clifford Glacier Clifford Glacier () is a broad glacier, about long, flowing in an east-northeast direction to the gap between Mount Tenniel and the Eland Mountains, and then east to Smith Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. The upper part of this glacier was ...

, northeast of the Clark Hills on the east coast of

Palmer Land Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...

. The mountains were discovered in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition, and they appear in aerial photographs taken by the

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in September 1940. During 1947 they were photographed from the air by members of the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

, who in conjunction with the

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(FIDS), charted them from the ground. The name Eland, Lady Clifford's maiden name, was given in 1952 by Sir Miles Clifford,

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, at the request of members of the FIDS staff.

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Mountain ranges of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub

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