Mount Rosenwald
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Mount Rosenwald is a mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 (3,450 m) which forms a distinctive landmark between the heads of Gallup
Gallup Glacier
Gallup Glacier is a broad glacier, about 12 nautical miles long, flowing east between Mount Rosenwald and Mount Black to enter Shackleton Glacier just north of Matador Mountain. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Commander F.S. Gallup, Jr., USN. Commanding Officer of Squadron...

 and Baldwin Glacier
Baldwin Glacier
Baldwin Glacier is a broad glacier, flowing generally eastward from a large icefalls at the escarpment west of Mount Rosenwald and entering Shackleton Glacier south of Mount Heekin. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump on the flights of February 16, 1947, and named...

s in the Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...

 of Antarctica.

The mountain is entirely snow covered on the southwest side but has nearly vertical exposed-rock cliff
Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure. Cliffs are formed as erosion landforms due to the processes of erosion and weathering that produce them. Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas, escarpments and along rivers. Cliffs are usually...

s on the northeast side. It was discovered and photographed by Admiral Byrd on the South Pole Flight of November 1929. It was named by Byrd for Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald was a U.S. clothier, manufacturer, business executive, and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for the Rosenwald Fund which donated millions to support the education of African American children in the rural South, as well...

 of Chicago, a contributor to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30 and 1933-35.
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