COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

highest peak (c. 1950m) on Clarence Island and in the Elephant Island group, was known to the nineteenth-century sealers; photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; following survey by JSEEI in 1970-71 and the ascent of the mountain on 6 December 1970, called Mount Agnew after Capt. Crispin Hamlyn Agnew of Lochnaw, yr, RHF (later Major Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet) (b.1944), who led the ascent (Burley and others, 1971b, Appendix J, p.1); later named Mount Bowles in association with Cape Bowles (q.v.) (DOS 610 sheet W 61 54 (Ext.), 1-GSGS 1972; APC, 1974, p.3), but renamed Mount Irving after Rear-Adm. Sir Edmund George Irving, RN (1910-90), Hydrographer of the Navy, 1960-66; member of the Natural Environment Research Council, 1967-72 (APC, 1975, p.4; BA chart 3205, 16.vii.1976). Mount Irving (Mount Bowles) (BA, 1976, p.2). The mountain was again climbed by JSEEIG, 9 January 1977.

A mountain that is the dominant elevation in the southern part of Clarence Island, in the South Shetland Islands. A prominent feature, the mountain doubtless was known to sealers in the area in the 1820s. Named by UK-APC for Rear Admiral Sir Edmund George Irving, RN, Hydrographer of the Navy, 1960-66.