Mount Reece
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Mount Reece is a sharp, ice-free 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...

, 1,085 m, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) west of Pitt Point
Pitt Point
Pitt Point is a promontory, 90 m high, at the south side of the mouth of Victory Glacier on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945, and named for K.A.J. Pitt, master of the 1944-45....

. It is the second highest point of Kondofrey Heights
Kondofrey Heights
Kondofrey Heights are the heights rising to 1119 m on the southeast side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Detroit Plateau, south of Victory Glacier and west of Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea. Linked to Detroit Plateau by Podgumer Col...

 forming the south wall of Victory Glacier
Victory Glacier
Victory Glacier is a gently sloping glacier, 8 nautical miles long, flowing east-southeast from the north end of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula to Prince Gustav Channel immediately north of Pitt Point. Bounded by Trakiya Heights to the north and Kondofrey Heights to the south...

 on the south side of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. Charted in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named for Alan Reece, leader of the FIDS Deception Island base in 1945, and meteorologist and geologist at the Hope Bay
Hope Bay
Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....

 base in 1946. Reece, a member of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition
Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition
Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition the first Antarctica expedition involving an international team of scientists...

 (NBSAE), 1949–52, was killed in an airplane accident in the Canadian Arctic in 1960.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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