Mount Roe
| Mount Roe | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Roe is a flattened and mostly icy mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . At the southeastern end of the Prince Olav Mountains, it rises 1.5 km northeast of Mount Wells above the western flank of the Liv Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Donald W. Roe Jr. of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron , who had wintered at McMurdo Station in 1961 and served as the squadron's security officer from 1962 to 1963.
Web links
- Mount Roe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Roe on geographic.org (English)