Mount Blick
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Mount Blick is a conical peak
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

 rising to over 1400 m in the north extremity of Carlstrom Foothills
Carlstrom Foothills
The Carlstrom Foothills are a group of peaks and ridges running north-south between Mount Albert Markham and Kelly Plateau in the Churchill Mountains. The feature is long with summits rising to...

, Churchill Mountains
Churchill Mountains
The Churchill Mountains is a mountain range bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier in Antarctica...

. The peak is on the west side of Bally Glacier
Bally Glacier
Bally Glacier is a glacier long which occupies the central part of the Carlstrom Foothills of the Churchill Mountains. It flows north along the east side of Mount Blick into Jorda Glacier...

, 8 nautical miles (15 km) east-southeast of Pyramid Mountain
Pyramid Mountain
Pyramid Mountain can refer to:*Pyramid Mountain in Jasper National Park, Canada*Pyramid Mountain in Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field of British Columbia, Canada*One of six other mountains in British ColumbiaAlso:...

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) in honor of Graeme Blick, Geodetic Survey Advisor, Office of the New Zealand Surveyor-General, 1996-2002. From 1998 to the present he has worked closely with the US Geological Survey on geodetic surveys in the Ross Sea Region and has overseen the development of the new Ross Sea Region Geodetic Datum 2000.
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