Mount Swadener () is a

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located in Edward VII Land,

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. This mountain is located in the Sneddon Nunataks, a group of coastal

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s on the north side of the

Alexandra Mountains :''See also Queen Alexandra Range'' Alexandra Mountains () is a group of low, separated mountains in the north portion of Edward VII Peninsula, just southwest of Sulzberger Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovered in January–February 19 ...

Edward VII Peninsula King Edward VII Land or King Edward VII Peninsula is a large, ice-covered peninsula which forms the northwestern extremity of Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. The peninsula projects into the Ross Sea between Sulzberger Bay and the northeast corne ...

. Nearby geographic features include

Swinburne Ice Shelf The Swinburne Ice Shelf (), is an ice shelf just north of Edward VII Peninsula and the Alexandra Mountains in the southern part of Sulzberger Bay, Antarctica. The ice shelf is long and wide and extends from Fisher Island to White Islands. It ...

and

Sulzberger Bay Sulzberger Bay () is a bay between Fisher Island and Vollmer Island, along the coast of King Edward VII Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, and named by Byrd for Arthur H. Sulzberger, publisher of ''The New Y ...

Discovery and naming

Mount Swadener was mapped by the

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(USGS) from ground surveys and

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taken by the

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between 1959–66. It was named by the

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(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant John R. Swadener, U.S. Navy, navigator of the ski-equipped

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in which Rear Admiral

George J. Dufek George John Dufek (10 February 1903, Rockford, Illinois – 10 February 1977, Bethesda, Maryland) was an American naval officer, naval aviator, and polar expert. He served in World War II and the Korean War and in the 1940s and 1950s spent much o ...

made the first aircraft landing at the geographic

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on 31 October 1956.

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