Supporting Party Mountain
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Supporting Party Mountain (85°27′S 147°33′W) 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...

, 560 m, standing 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Mount Fridovich
Mount Fridovich
Mount Fridovich is a small mountain, 440 m, standing at the north side of the terminus of Leverett Glacier and marking the west limit of Harold Byrd Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Bernard Fridovich, U.S. Navy, meteorologist with the winter party at...

 in the Harold Byrd Mountains
Harold Byrd Mountains
Harold Byrd Mountains is a group of exposed mountains and nunataks which extend in an east-west direction between the lower part of Leverett Glacier and the head of the Ross Ice Shelf Discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould, and named by...

. Discovered in December 1929 by members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition Geological Sledging Party under Laurence Gould. Named by them in appreciation of the splendid cooperative work of their Supporting Party. The mountain was climbed by members of Gould's party who took panoramic
Panorama
A panorama is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model....

 photograph
Photograph
A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...

s from the summit.
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