Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Rex, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Rex (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An isolated mountain (1,105 m) which rises above the interior ice surface of Ellsworth Land about 55 mi SSE of FitzGerald Bluffs. Discovered and photographed from the air on Nov. 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth (Geographical Review, July 1936, p. 459, Fig. 16). The feature was resighted by the RARE (1947-48) under Finn Ronne, who named it for Lt. Cdr. Daniel F. Rex, USN, of the Office of Naval Research, who made important contributions to the planning of the scientific research program and the equipping of the expedition.
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