The Allardyce Range ( es, Cordillera de San Telmo) is a

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rising south of Cumberland Bay and dominating the central part of South Georgia, a UK

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. It extends for from Mount Globus in the northwest to Mount Brooker in the southeast, with peaks of and including

Mount Paget Mount Paget is a summit of Allardyce Range on the South Atlantic/Antarctic island of South Georgia. It is the highest peak on the island, and also the highest peak in any territory under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom (excluding the Bri ...

() 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

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in 1775 or

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in 1819, peaks of this range were doubtless seen by those explorers. The range was named c. 1915 after Sir

William Lamond Allardyce Sir William Lamond Allardyce, (14 November 1861 – 10 June 1930) was a career British civil servant in the Colonial Office who served as governor of Fiji (1901–1902), the Falkland Islands (1904–1914), Bahamas (1914–1920), Tasmania (1920� ...

(1861–1930), Governor of the

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and Dependencies, 1904–14.

References

* Stonehouse, B (ed.) ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans'' (2002, ) Mountains and hills of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub

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