Mount Simmons

Mount Simmons
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height	1590 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Independence Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 81 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 80 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 81 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W

The Mount Simmons is a 1590 m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . In the Heritage Range, it rises at the northern end of the Independence Hills .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Richard S. Simmons, aircraft technician for the United States Navy , who died on February 2, 1966 when the Douglas LC-47J Spirit of McMurdo crashed on the Ross Ice Shelf .

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