Mount Reece
| Mount Reece | ||
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| height | 1085 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 49 ′ 56 ″ S , 58 ° 32 ′ 15 ″ W | |
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Mount Reece is a 1085 m high, pointed and non-iced mountain in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6 km west of Pitt Point in the south of the Trinity Peninsula . It is the highest point on a mountain ridge that forms the south face of the Victory Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it in 1945. The FIDS named it after the British geologist and meteorologist Alan William Reece (1921-1960), who worked for the FIDS in 1945 on Deception Island and 1946 in Hope Bay and at the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) participated.
Web links
- Mount Reece in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Reece on geographic.org (English)