Mount Speed () is a roughly circular, mound-shaped
mountain
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with several low summits at the edge of
Ross Ice Shelf
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, standing at the west side of the mouth of
Shackleton Glacier. Discovered by the
United States Antarctic Service Expedition (USAS) (1939–41), and surveyed by
A.P. Crary
Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysics, geophysicist and glaciology, glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on M ...
, leader of the
U.S. Ross Ice Shelf Traverse
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(1957–58). Named by Crary for Lieutenant
Harvey G. Speed
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,
U.S. Navy, Squadron
VX-6, who wintered at
Little America V in 1957.
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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