Mount Rees (Royal Society Range)

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Mount Rees
height 2314  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Rees (Royal Society Range) (Antarctica)
Mount Rees (Royal Society Range)

Mount Rees is a 2314  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the Royal Society Range 6 km south-southwest of Mount Talmadge from the cliffs on the western flank of the Koettlitz Firnfeld .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1994 after the US geologist Margaret N. Rees of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas , who took part in several field research campaigns in the Transantarctic Mountains, including the area around the Skelton Glacier , between 1984 and 1996 .

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