Ivory Tower (Antarctica)
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Ivory Tower is a small peak
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

 rising to about 800 m, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Fadden Peak
Fadden Peak
Fadden Peak is a peak, 920 m, located 2 nautical miles east of Cressey Peak, between the southeast edge of the Ross Ice Shelf and Watson Escarpment. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Dean E. Fadden, utilitiesman with the Byrd Station winter party, 1958....

, between Harold Byrd Mountains
Harold Byrd Mountains
Harold Byrd Mountains is a group of exposed mountains and nunataks which extend in an east-west direction between the lower part of Leverett Glacier and the head of the Ross Ice Shelf Discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould, and named by...

 and Bender Mountains
Bender Mountains
The Bender Mountains are a small group of mountains southwest of Berry Peaks, between the southeast edge of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Watson Escarpment. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and named by the Advisory...

. The peak was visited by a United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP)-Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

geological party, 1977-78, and so named from its composition of nearly all white marble.
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