Mount Speyer
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Mount Speyer is a 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...

, 2,430 m, standing directly at the head of Kehle Glacier
Kehle Glacier
Kehle Glacier is a glacier draining the west slopes of Worcester Range in the vicinity of Mount Speyer and Mount Dawson-Lambton, and flowing southwest into Mulock Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Ralph Kehle, glaciologist at Little America V, 1959-60....

 in the Worcester Range
Worcester Range
The Worcester Range is a mountain range in Antarctica standing between the Skelton and Mulock Glaciers on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Probably named after the training ship in the Thames, in which many officers of early British Antarctic expeditions trained. Discovered by the British...

. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and named for Edgar Speyer
Edgar Speyer
Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of his family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American branches...

, a contributor to the expedition.
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