Mount Malville () is a mountain, high, standing southwest of Ackerman Nunatak in the northern part of the

Forrestal Range The Forrestal Range () is a largely snow-covered mountain range, about long, standing east of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on 13 January 1956 on a transcontinental patrol ...

Pensacola Mountains The Pensacola Mountains are a large group of mountain ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Queen Elizabeth Land region of Antarctica. Geography They extend 450 km (280 mi) in a NE-SW direction. Subranges of the ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

Mapping and name

Mount Malville was mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

(USGS) from surveys and

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

air photographs from 1956 to 1966. It was named by the United States

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for J. McKim Malville, an auroral scientist at

Ellsworth Station Ellsworth Scientific Station ( es, Estación Científica Ellsworth, or simply ''Estación Ellsworth'' or ''Base Ellsworth'') was a permanent, all year-round originally American, then Argentine Antarctic scientific research station named after Amer ...

during the winter of 1957.

Location

Mount Malville is towards the north end of the

, which trends north-northeast between the Sallee Snowfield to the west and the

Support Force Glacier Support Force Glacier is a major glacier in the Pensacola Mountains, draining northward between the Forrestal Range and Argentina Range to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy air p ...

to the east. It is north of the Kester Peaks. The Larson Nunataks are just to the east of Mount Malville. Features to the north include Ackerman Nunatak, Butler Rocks and Vanguard Nunatak.

Nearby features

Larson Nunataks

. A small cluster of nunataks lying along the east side of Forrestal Range, southeast of Mount Malville. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-AC AN for Larry R. Larson, aviation electronics technician at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.

Ackerman Nunatak

. An isolated nunatak, high, standing south-southeast of Butler Rocks. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Thomas A. Ackerman, aerographer, Ellsworth Station winter party, 1957.

Butler Rocks

. Two rock nunataks, high, standing southwest of Vanguard Nunatak. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for William A. Butler, aerographer, Ellsworth Station winter party, 1957.

Vanguard Nunatak

. A conspicuous cone-shaped nunatak, high, standing at the northern extremity of Forrestal Range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. So named by US-ACAN for its prominent position at the north end of Forrestal Range.

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