Mount Dolence
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Mount Dolence is a remarkably spired bare rock 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...

, 1,950 m, located in the northwest extremity of the Enterprise Hills
Enterprise Hills
Enterprise Hills is a prominent group of largely ice-free hills and peaks in the form of an arc. The feature extends for about 30 nautical miles to form the north and northeast boundary of Horseshoe Valley in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Enterprise Hills were mapped by United States...

 and separated from Edson Hills
Edson Hills
Edson Hills is a group of mainly ice-free hills lying south of Drake Icefall and west of Union Glacier in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Named by the University of Minnesota Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1962–63, for Dean T. Edson, United States Geological Survey topographic engineer with...

 by the upper part of Union Glacier
Union Glacier
Union Glacier , is a large, heavily-crevassed glacier which receives the flow of several tributaries and drains through the middle of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. The glacier drains from the plateau at Edson Hills on the west side of the range and flows east between Pioneer...

, in the Heritage Range
Heritage Range
The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, long and wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica...

, Ellsworth Mountains
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...

. Named by the University of Minnesota Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1962–63, for Jerry D. Dolence, geologist and member of the party.
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