Mount Elder is a

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

lying between Endurance Glacier and

Mount Pendragon Mount Pendragon is a mountain (975 m high) north-west of Cape Lookout (South Shetland Islands), Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was mapped by the Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island, UK ...

on Elephant Island, in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

of Antarctica. It was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

for Captain John P. Elder,

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...

, surveyor of the U.K.

Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island The Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island was a British scientific surveying and mountaineering expedition to Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It took place from December 1970 to March 1971. Except for one civi ...

in 1970–71.

Important Bird Area

A tract of ice-free land east of the mountain, extending for 4 km along the shoreline, has been identified as an

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

(IBA) by

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because it supports a large breeding colony of about 14,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins.

References

Mountains of the South Shetland Islands Elephant Island Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies {{ElephantIsland-geo-stub