Mount Wallace

Mount Wallace (85°39′S 151°24′W) is one of the Tapley Mountains, 1,490 m, standing at the south side of the mouth of Roe Glacier at the juncture with Scott Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for J. Allen Wallace, Jr., meteorologist, South Pole Station winter party, 1960.

Not to be confused with Wallace Mount.
This article is about the mountain in Antarctica. For the peak in the Sierra Nevada, see Mount Wallace (Fresno and Inyo counties, California).

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