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Mount Mende (74°50′S 71°36′W / 74.833°S 71.6°W) is a nunatak 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southwest of Mount Lanzerotti, rising to about 1,500 m in the Sky-Hi Nunataks of Ellsworth Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1987 after Stephen B. Mende of the Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, a Principal Investigator in upper atmosphere research, including auroral studies, carried out at Siple Station and South Pole Station from 1973.
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