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Mount Back () is a peak, high, located south of
Doris Bay Doris Bay is a small bay immediately southeast of Saint Andrews Bay, along the north coast of South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South ...
,
South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Squadron Leader
Anthony H. Back Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the '' Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton ...
, Royal Air Force, assistant surveyor with the
British Combined Services Expedition British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...
of 1964–65, who assisted in the survey of this peak.


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Mountains and hills of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub