First seen and photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on 23 November 1935, they were charted from the ground in October 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Rymill, and named after Sir Harry Batterbee (1880–1976), Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office, 1930–38, and Chairman of the Polar Committee in 1934, who gave help to the expedition.
[1] Unless otherwise noted, these features were first photographed by Ellsworth, charted by the BGLE under Rymill, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC).
The Batterbee Mountain range is split along its north–south axis by the Rowley Corridor, a pass which extends from Ryder Glacier to Conchie Glacier and separates the inland peaks such as Mount Ness and Mount Bagshawe from the coastal peaks along the western edge of Palmer Land and George VI Sound.
[4] Swine Hill is the southernmost of two rugged, rocky knolls, 1,800 ft (550 m) high, which stand 10 nmi (19 km) west-northwest of the summit of Mount Bagshawe on the west coast of Palmer Land.
In summer a considerable volume of water enters the lake from the ravine immediately north of Swine Hill.
The names of these features comes from an incident where the expedition's sled dogs attempted to throw themselves and their sledge down the steep ice slopes into the water, which reminded the explorers of the Biblical Gadarene swine.
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