Mount Rhone

Mount Rhone
Mount Rhone
	Mount Rhone Oates Land, East Antarctica
Highest point
Elevation	2,020 m (6,630 ft)
Coordinates	79°59′S 158°44′E
Geography
Location	Oates Land, East Antarctica
Parent range	Britannia Range

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.

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