Mount Mann is a

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

, high, standing on the southeast edge of Lexington Table, south of Mount Zirzow, in the

Forrestal Range The Forrestal Range () is a largely snow-covered mountain range, about long, standing east of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on 13 January 1956 on a transcontinental patrol ...

Pensacola Mountains The Pensacola Mountains are a large group of mountain ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Queen Elizabeth Land region of Antarctica. Geography They extend 450 km (280 mi) in a NE-SW direction. Subranges of the ...

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. It was mapped by the

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from surveys and

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air photos from 1956 to 1966, 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 Captain Edward K. Mann of the

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, who was an assistant in the Research Division of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica between 1966 and 1968.

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Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land Pensacola Mountains Mountains of Antarctica {{QueenElizabethLand-geo-stub