Mount Dover () is a mountain in Antarctica, high, surmounting the southeast end of Gale Ridge where the ridge abuts the Washington Escarpment, in the Neptune Range,

Pensacola Mountains The Pensacola Mountains are a large group of mountain ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Queen Elizabeth Land region of Antarctica. Geography They extend 450 km (280 mi) in a NE-SW direction. Subranges of the ...

Exploration and name

Mount Dover was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photographs in 1956–66- It was named by the United States

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for James H. Dover, a geologist with the Patuxent Range field party in 1962–63.

Location

Mount Dover is towards the south of the Washington Escarpment, west of the

Iroquois Plateau Iroquois Plateau () is a large, mainly ice-covered plateau situated east of the southern part of the Washington Escarpment in the Pensacola Mountains of Edith Ronne Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from survey ...

and east of the

Roderick Valley Schmidt Hills () is a group of rock hills, long, lying north of Childs Glacier and west of Roderick Valley in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. Mapping and name The Schmidt Hills were mapped by the United States Geolog ...

. It is north of Mount Hawkes,

Bennett Spires Mount Hawkes is, at , the highest mountain along the Washington Escarpment, standing at the east side of Jones Valley Jones Valley () is a snow-covered valley between West Prongs and Elliott Ridge in the southern Neptune Range of the Pensacola ...

and the Barnes Icefalls, and south of the

Nelson Peak Nelson Peak () is a peak in Antarctica, standing at the eastern end of Drury Ridge and Brown Ridge where the two ridges abut Washington Escarpment, in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Exploration and name Nelson Peak was mapped by the U ...

. The Gale Ridge extends northwest from Mount Dover, and includes Mount Cowart and Kinsella Peak.

Nearby features

Barnes Icefalls

. The icefalls along Washington Escarpment between Mount Dover and

. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for James C. Barnes, meteorologist and station scientific leader at Ellsworth Station, winter 1962.

Gale Ridge

. A ridge, long, extending northwestward from Mount Dover. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Phillip L. Gale, meteorologist at Ellsworth Station, winter 1962.

Mount Cowart

. A peak, high, midway along Gale Ridge. Mapped by USGS from surveys and air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for M. Sergeant Ray J. Cowart, United States Air Force, flight engineer and member of the Electronic Test Unit in the Pensacola Mountains, summer 1957-58.

Kinsella Peak

. A peak along the south side of Gale Ridge, west of Mount Cowart. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for William R. Kinsella, electronics technician at Ellsworth Station, winter 1958.

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