Mount Saltonstall () is a tabular
mountain
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, 2,975 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of
Mount Innes-Taylor at the south side of
Poulter Glacier, in the
Queen Maud Mountains
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,
Antarctica
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. Discovered in December 1934 by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
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geological party under
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, and named by Byrd for
John Saltonstall, contributor to the expedition.
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Amundsen Coast
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