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Mount Innes-Taylor () is a mountain, high, standing north of
Mount Saltonstall Mount Saltonstall () is a tabular mountain, 2,975 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Mount Innes-Taylor at the south side of Poulter Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarct ...
at the south side of
Poulter Glacier Poulter Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica, about 180 miles from the South Pole at an elevation of 8,000 feet. It flows east from the Antarctic Plateau past the Rawson Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains and joins with the Scott Glacier. It was ...
, in the
Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic P ...
of
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. It was discovered in December 1934 by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...
geological party under
Quin Blackburn Quin may refer to: * Quin (name), including a list of people with the name * Quin, colloquially, one of a set of quintuplets, a multiple birth of five individuals * Quin (Sigilverse), a fictional planet * Quin, County Clare, a village in County Cla ...
, and named by
Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...
for Captain Alan Innes-Taylor, who served with the expedition as chief of trail operations.


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The Papers of Alan Innes-Taylor
at Dartmouth College Library Mountains of the Ross Dependency Queen Maud Mountains Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub