Mount Stuart (Antarctica)
Mount Stuart (72°33′S 162°15′E / 72.550°S 162.250°E) is a mountain, 1,995 m, standing 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Mount VX-6, in the Monument Nunataks. It was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for A.W. Stuart, glaciologist and member of the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) Victoria Land Traverse Party which surveyed this area in 1959-60.
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