Mount Elder is a 940-metre (3,080 ft)mountain lying betweenEndurance Glacier andMount Pendragon onElephant Island, in theSouth Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named by theUK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for CaptainJohn P. Elder,Royal Engineers, surveyor of the U.K.Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island in 1970–71.^[1]

A 209-hectare (520-acre) tract of ice-free land 4 kilometres (2 nmi) east of the mountain, extending for 4 km along the shoreline, has been identified as anImportant Bird Area (IBA) byBirdLife International because it supports a largebreeding colony of about 14,000 pairs ofchinstrap penguins.^[2]

 This article incorporatespublic domain material from"Mount Elder".Geographic Names Information System.United States Geological Survey.

61°13′S55°12′W / 61.217°S 55.200°W /-61.217; -55.200

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