Mount Alice Gade () is a mainly ice-covered

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over 3,400 m, marking the northeast extremity of the

Rawson Plateau The Rawson Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, long and high, rising between the heads of Bowman Glacier, Moffett Glacier and Steagall Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928–30, and ...

in the

Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic P ...

. It was discovered in November 1911 by Captain

Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (, ; ; 16 July 1872 – ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen bega ...

, and named by him for one of the daughters of the Norwegian minister (

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) and consul-general to Brazil, a strong supporter of Amundsen.

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Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub

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