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Mount Spann (82°3′S 41°21′W / 82.05°S 41.35°W) is a mountain, 925 m, marking the north extremity of the Panzarini Hills and the Argentina Range, at the northeast end of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 in the course of a U.S. Navy transcontinental nonstop plan flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Staff Sgt. Robert C. Spann, United States Marine Corps (USMC), navigator of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft during this flight.
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