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Mount LeResche

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Mount LeResche is a prominent mountain (2,040 m) at the extreme north end of Homerun Range in the Admiralty Mountains, in the Victoria Land region of Antarctica. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960–63.

Map of Mount LeResche, Antarctica

The range was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Robert E. LeResche, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) biologist at McMurdo Station and Cape Crozier, Ross Island, 1966–67, 1967–68 and 1968–69.

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