Mount Sanderson
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Mount Sanderson (69°17′S 70°47′W / 69.283°S 70.783°WCoordinates: 69°17′S 70°47′W / 69.283°S 70.783°W) is a mountain rising to about 2,300 m in south Rouen Mountains, situated in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The mountain was first surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey in 1975-76. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1980 after Timothy John Oliver Sanderson, glaciologist who was a member of the British Antarctic Survey during 1975–78, he worked on the George VI Ice Shelf.
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