Mount Rees (Royal Society Range)
Mount Rees | ||
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height | 2314 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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 .
Web links
- Mount Rees in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rees on geographic.org (English)