Mount Mende

Mount Mende

Mount Mende (74°50′S 71°36′W / 74.833°S 71.6°W / -74.833; -71.6) 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.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Mende" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).