Dvorak Ice Rise is an ice rise 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) in extent, rising above the ice of Mendelssohn Inlet

Mendelssohn Inlet

Mendelssohn Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, 25 nautical miles long and 9 nautical miles wide, between Derocher peninsula and Eroica Peninsula on the north side of Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island. First seen from the air and roughly mapped by the United States Antarctic Service , 1939-41...

 in the southwest part of Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Antonin Dvorak

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

(1841–1904), Bohemian composer.