Mount Payne

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Mount Payne
height 3221  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 72 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 167 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 72 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 167 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Payne (Antarctica)
Mount Payne

Mount Payne is a 3221  m high and mostly icy mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains, it rises 2.8 km east of Mount Riddoll , 5.6 km east of Mount Randall and 11 km east of Mount Burrill from the Stever Ridge .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the US geographer and historian Roger Lee Payne (* 1948), who was a member of the United States Board on Geographic Names from 1993 to 2006.

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