Mount Tyrrell
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Mount Tyrrell is a mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 with two summits, the highest 1,310 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) inland from the east coast of Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

 on the east side and near the mouth of Toynbee Glacier
Toynbee Glacier
Toynbee Glacier is a glacier in northeast Alexander Island, 17 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, between the mountains of the Douglas Range on the west and Mount Tyrrell and Mount Tilley on the east. It flows north from Mount Stephenson to George VI Sound...

. First photographed from the air in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition
British Graham Land Expedition
A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill. Surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named by them for George W. Tyrrell, British geologist at Glasgow University.
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