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Mount Mende

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Elevation
  
1,500 m

Mount Mende (74°50′S 71°36′W) is a nunatak 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southwest of Mount Lanzerotti, rising to about 1,500 metres (5,000 ft) in the Sky-Hi Nunataks of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Stephen B. Mende of the Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, a Principal Investigator in upper atmosphere research, including auroral studies, carried out at Siple Station and South Pole Station from 1973 onwards.

Map of Mount Mende, Antarctica

References

Mount Mende Wikipedia


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