Mount Twintop
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Mount Twintop is a twin-peaked 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...

 about 6 nautical miles (11 km) south-southwest of Mount Tritoppen
Mount Tritoppen
Mount Tritoppen is a triple-peaked mountain, 1,350 m, standing 3 nautical miles south of Mount Hordern in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Tritoppen ....

 in the south part of the David Range
David Range
David Range is a mountain range 8 km west of Masson Range, which it parallels, in the Framnes Mountains of Antarctica. It extends 26 km in a NNE-SSW direction, with peaks rising to 1,500 metres....

, Framnes Mountains
Framnes Mountains
Framnes Mountains is an Antarctic mountain range consisting of Casey Range, Masson Range, David Range, and Brown Range, and adjacent peaks and mountains. The three major ranges and other lesser features were sighted and named in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research...

. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and named Tvitoppen (the twin 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...

). The translated form of the name recommended by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) has been adopted.
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