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Mount Arcone
Mount Arcone
is a horseshoe-shaped
mountain
rising to
1350
m in
Nash Range
,
Churchill Mountains
. It
stands
at the
east side
of
Dickey Glacier
, 7
nautical miles
north
of
Mount Canopus
. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
after
Steven
A. Arcone, U.S.
Army
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
, who
conducted
ground radar
traverses and
airborne radar
surveys in
the South
Pole
area
,
Transantarctic Mountains
, and
ice sheet
of
West Antarctica
during six field seasons, 1993–2002.