Mount LeMasurier () is an ice-free coastal mountain which rises to more than between Mount Vance and

Mount Langway The Ickes Mountains (, ) () are a series of coastal mountains that extend west from Strauss Glacier for in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The mountains were discovered from aircraft of the U.S. Antarctic Service on 18 December 1940. The name Ickes ...

, in the central part of the Ickes Mountains of

Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...

, Antarctica. The feature was discovered and photographed from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for Wesley E. LeMasurier, a geologist with the Marie Byrd Land Survey II, 1967–68. Later, LeMasurier continued research as a faculty member of the geology department at University of Colorado at Denver. In 2018, he is still actively publishing scholarly articles and participating in research projects out of CU Boulder's campus.

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