Mount Alf () is a mountain rising over 3,200 m between

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and

Mount Dalrymple Mount Dalrymple () is a mountain (3,600 m) between Mount Alf and Mount Goldthwait in the northern part of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It surmounts Sabazios Glacier to the north-northeast and Embree Glacier to the southeast. The mountain ...

in the north part of the

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...

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. It surmounts

Sabazios Glacier Sabazios Glacier (, ) is the long and wide glacier on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated south of Newcomer Glacier, west of Anchialus Glacier, north of Embree Glacier, and east of Z ...

to the northeast. It was named after Edward A. Alf, the nephew of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. He worked at the U.S. Weather Bureau Airport Station, in Great Falls, Montana in 1961. Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the National Academy of sciences—National Research Council of the United States of America sent a letter confirming this honor. The Antarctic feature, a mountain peak in West Antarctica, has been named in recognition of his contributions while a participant in the United States scientific program in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year. The proposal to name this feature in his behalf was made by Mr. George R. Toney and Dr. Charles Bentley who mapped this area in January 1958, and was approved by the National Academy of Sciences' Special Committee on IGY Geographic Names in the Antarctic and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names, Department of Interior. Ed in antartica

The mountain was mapped by the

Charles R. Bentley Charles Raymond Bentley (December 23, 1929 – August 19, 2017) was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Su ...

-led Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957–58. Named by the

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 ...

(US-ACAN) for Edward A. Alf, meteorologist, member of the 1957 wintering party at

Byrd Station The Byrd Station is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by U.S. Navy Seabees during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica. It was a year-round base until 1972, and then se ...

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Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub

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