Mount Inverleith () is a mountain, high, overlooking
Andvord Bay
Andvord Bay () is a bay-like fjord, long and wide, which lies between Beneden Head and Duthiers Point along the west coast of Graham Land.
It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by ...
, located roughly five miles due south of the bay's southern shoreline (
Lester Cove). Mount Inverleith is flanked by
Dallmeyer Peak to the north and by the
Grubb Glacier and
Bagshawe Glaciers to the west.
It is located roughly 9.5 miles southwest of
Brown Station, on
Danco Coast
The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it f ...
in western
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
,
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 ...
.
The mountain was first charted and named "Iverleith Hill" by Scottish geologist
David Ferguson in 1913–14.
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Current weather conditions
Photographof northern slope facing Paradise Bay
Mountains of Graham Land
Danco Coast
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