Mount Nespelen

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Mount Nespelen
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location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 76 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 76 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Nespelen (Antarctica)
Mount Nespelen
Map sheet Convoy Range from 1988 with Mount Nespelen near the eastern edge of the map in the southern quarter

Map sheet Convoy Range from 1988 with Mount Nespelen near the eastern edge of the map in the southern quarter

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Mount Nespelen is a massive mountain and the highest point in the coastal mountains between the Mackay Glacier and the Fry Glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises on the northern flank of the Benson Glacier and 6.5 km south of Mount Davidson .

The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it after the USS Nespelen , a US tanker in McMurdo Sound from 1956-1957 .

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