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Mount Rhone

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Elevation
  
2,020 m

Parent range
  
Britannia Range

Mountain range
  
Britannia Range

Location
  
Oates Land, East Antarctica

Mount Rhone is the highest peak (2,020 metres (6,630 feet)) in the Bucknell Ridge in the northeast part of the Britannia Range. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Christopher M. Rhone, a communications officer with the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1992–94; Director of Information Systems with the ASA, 1994–2000.

Map of Mount Rhone, Antarctica

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Rhone" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

References

Mount Rhone Wikipedia