Mount Stent is

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 ...

at the southern extreme of the

Wallabies Nunataks Wallabies Nunataks () is a large group of nunataks near the polar plateau, lying 10 nautical miles (18 km) northeast of All-Blacks Nunataks at the east side of the Byrd Neve. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expediti ...

, west of the

Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. Seve ...

. It was named in honor of N. E. Stent, a member of the 1961

Cape Hallett Cape Hallett is a snow-free area (Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north. History In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was dama ...

winter-over team, working as a technician on the

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project.

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