Mount Falla is a prominent conical mountain, high, standing northeast of Mount Stonehouse, between Berwick and Prebble Glaciers.

Exploration and name

Mount Falla was sighted in January 1958 by the New Zealand party of the

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(CTAE) (1956–58), and named for R.A. Falla, a member of the Ross Sea Committee.

Location

Mount Falla is in the southwest of the Queen Alexandra Range, to the west of

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and north of the Marshall Mountains. Nearby features include Lamping Peak to the north of Prebble Glacier, Fremouw Peak and Golden Cap to the south of Prebble Glacier, and Gordon Valley, Mount Stonehouse and Buttress Peak to the southwest.

Features

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Hanson Spur

. A flat-topped ridge, long, trending northwest from Mount Falla. Named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) in 1995 after Richard E. Hanson, geologist,

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, who conducted field research in this area, 1990-91.

Lamping Peak

. A rock peak standing between Prebble and Wyckoff Glaciers, on the western slopes of the Queen Alexandra Range. Named by US-ACAN for John T. Lamping, USARP geomagnetist at South Pole Station, 1961.

Fremouw Peak

. A prominent peak, high, forming the south side of the mouth of Prebble Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Edward J. Fremouw, USARP aurora scientist at South Pole Station, 1959.

Golden Cap

. The highest peak, high, on the ridge running northwest from Mount Falla, about midway between the latter mountain and Fremouw Peak in Queen Alexandra Range. So named by the

party to the Queen Alexandra Range (1966–67) because the peak consists mainly of a buff-weathering massive sandstone.

Gordon Valley

. A small valley, the western half of which is occupied by a lobe of ice from

Walcott Névé Lennox-King Glacier is a large valley glacier, about long that flows east into the Ross Ice Shelf. Location Lennox-King Glacier drains Bowden Névé and flows northeast between the Holland Range and the Queen Alexandra Range of Antarctica t ...

, lying west of Mount Falla. Named by US-ACAN after Mark A. Gordon, USARP aurora scientist at Hallett Station, 1959.

Mount Stonehouse

. A peak, high, standing southwest of Mount Falla. Named by the

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(NZGSAE) (1961–62) for Bernard Stonehouse who has made studies of Antarctic penguins and seals.

Buttress Peak

. A conical rock peak, high, the eastern part of which projects as a rock buttress into the head of Berwick Glacier, standing south of Mount Stonehouse. The descriptive name was given by NZGSAE, 1961-62.

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