Mount LeResche
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Mount LeResche () is a prominent mountain (2,040 m) at the extreme north end of Homerun Range in the Admiralty Mountains, in the Victoria Land region of Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Robert E. LeResche, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) biologist at McMurdo Station and Cape Crozier, Ross Island, 1966-67, 1967-68 and 1968-69.
This article incorporates text from Mount LeResche, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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