Mount Priestley
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Mount Priestley () is a mountain, 1,100 m, rising at the north side of David Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) southwest of Mount Bellingshausen, in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. First mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09, which named it for Raymond (later Sir Raymond) E. Priestley, geologist with the expedition, who was later a member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13.
This article incorporates text from Mount Priestley, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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