Mount Roe is a flattish, largely ice-covered mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 overlooking the west side of Liv Glacier

Liv Glacier

Liv Glacier is a steep valley glacier, long, emerging from the Antarctic Plateau just southeast of Barnum Peak and draining north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter Ross Ice Shelf between Mayer Crags and Duncan Mountains. Discovered in 1911 by Roald Amundsen, who named it for the daughter...

. It stands 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northeast of Mount Wells

Mount Wells (Antarctica)

Mount Wells is a massive ice-covered mountain in the Prince Olav Mountains, standing at the west side of Liv Glacier, about northwest of June Nunatak. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Harry Wells, Executive Secretary of the Committee on Polar Research, US National...

 at the southeast end of Prince Olav Mountains

Prince Olav Mountains

The Prince Olav Mountains is a mountain range of the Queen Maud Mountains stretching from Shackleton Glacier to Liv Glacier at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf....

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Donald W. Roe, Jr., of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6

VX-6

Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...

, a member of the 1961 winter party at McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...

and squadron safety officer in the 1962-63 season.