Mount Grant, South Georgia

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Mount Grant
Elevation	1,205 metres (3,953 ft)
Location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°15′S 37°7′W / -54.25, -37.117Coordinates: 54°15′S 37°7′W / -54.25, -37.117

Mount Grant is a mountain standing between Esmark and Keilhau Glaciers on the south side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Henry E.W. Grant, Colonial Secretary. and Legal Adviser in the Falkland Islands, 1906–09, who contributed to the early development of the whaling industry and the conservation of whales in the area.

This article incorporates text from Mount Grant, South Georgia, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.