Feature Name (see definition): Reece, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 12451

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 50' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 058° 32' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.8333333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -58.5333333

Elevation (see definition): 1085

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1952

Description (see definition): Sharp, ice-free peak, 1,085 m, standing 4 mi W of Pitt Point. It is the highest point of a ridge forming the S wall of Victory Glacier on the S side of Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1945 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named for Alan Reece, leader of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) Deception Island base in 1945, and meteorologist and geologist at the Hope Bay base in 1946. Reece, a member of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE), 1949-52, was killed in an airplane accident in the Canadian Arctic in 1960.

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