Mount McKeown is a

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rising to on the north side of

Embree Glacier Embree Glacier is a long glacier in the north-central part of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, draining the eastern slopes of Mount Hale, Mount Davis and Mount Bentley, the northeast slopes of Mount Anderson, and the northwestern slopes ...

, northeast of

Mount Schmid Mount Schmid () is a mountain on the south side of Embree Glacier, rising 8 km east of Mount Goldthwait in Bangey Heights in the northern portion of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. Mapped by USGS from surveys and US Navy air photos, 1957� ...

, and forming the south extremity of

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in the northern part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It was first mapped by the

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from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1957 to 1959, and was named by the

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for First Lieutenant Donald F. McKeown of the

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who participated in establishing the South Pole Station in the 1956–57 season.

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Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub

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