Mount Rees () is a mountain () which rises above the cliffs at the west side of
Koettlitz Névé Koettlitz Névé () is a roughly circular névé about wide at the head of Koettlitz Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The névé is bounded to the west and south by Mount Talmadge, Mount Rees and Mount Cocks, and to the east by Mount Morning
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, SSW of
Mount Talmadge
Mount Talmadge () is a mountain (2,395 m) which rises above the steep cliffs at the west side of Koettlitz Neve, 3 nautical miles (6 km) south of Fisher Bastion, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACA ...
,
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
. It is named after
Margaret N. Rees, geologist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who conducted field studies in the
Transantarctic Mountains, including the
Skelton Glacier
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
Named after the Skelton Inlet by the New Zealand party o ...
area of the
Hillary Coast
The Hillary Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica along the western margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Minna Bluff and Cape Selborne. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Sir Edmund Hillary, the le ...
, through several seasons, 1984–96.
Mountains of Victoria Land
Hillary Coast
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