Allardyce Range
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The Allardyce Range (Template:Langx) is a mountain range rising south of Cumberland Bay and dominating the central part of South Georgia, a British Overseas Territories.[1] It extends for Script error: No such module "convert". from Mount Globus in the northwest to Mount Brooker in the southeast, with peaks of Script error: No such module "convert". and including Mount Paget (Script error: No such module "convert".) the highest peak of the range and also the highest point in the UK territory. Other peaks of the range include Mount Roots.
Although not shown on the charts of South Georgia by Cook in 1775 or Bellingshausen in 1819, peaks of this range were doubtless seen by those explorers. The range was named c. 1915 after Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1861–1930), Governor of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies, 1904–14.[2]
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- Stonehouse, B (ed.) Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans (2002, Template:ISBN)
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