Mount Innes-Taylor

Mount Innes-Taylor (86°51′S 154°27′W) is a mountain, 2,730 metres (8,960 ft) high, standing 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Mount Saltonstall at the south side of Poulter Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Captain Alan Innes-Taylor who served with the expedition as chief of trail operations.[1]

References
  1. "Innes-Taylor, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-08.

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