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Mount Dean (85°32′S 163°0′W / 85.533°S 163°W) is a mountain, 1,620 m, standing at the northeast end of the Quarles Range, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Mount Belecz. Probably first seen by Roald Amundsen's polar party in 1911. First mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Jesse D. Dean, meteorologist with the South Pole Station party of 1962.
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