Mount Light
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Mount Light is a mountain
Mountain
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 along the south side of Barcus Glacier
Barcus Glacier
Barcus Glacier is a glacier in the Hutton Mountains that drains east-southeast, to the north of Mount Nash and Mount Light, into Keller Inlet in Palmer Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and named by the...

, 6 nautical miles (11 km) east-southeast of Mount Nash
Mount Nash
Mount Nash is a mountain, 1,295 m, standing 13 nautical miles west-northwest of the head of Keller lnlet and 12 nautical miles north-northeast of Mount Owen, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, under Ronne, who named it for H.R....

, in the Hutton Mountains
Hutton Mountains
Hutton Mountains is a group of mountains in southeast Palmer Land, bounded on the southwest by Johnston Glacier, on the northwest by Squires Glacier, on the north by Swann Glacier, and on the east by Keller Inlet. The mountains were observed and photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research...

, Palmer Land
Palmer Land
Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. Mapped 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)-FIDS joint sledge party of 1947-48. Named by Finn Ronne
Finn Ronne
Finn Ronne was a U.S. Antarctic explorer.-Background:Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne , was a polar explorer and served in Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole...

 for Richard Upjohn Light
Richard Upjohn Light
Richard Upjohn Light was a U.S. neurosurgeon, aviator, cinematographer, and former president of the American Geographical Society.-Early life:...

, then President of the American Geographical Society
American Geographical Society
The American Geographical Society is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the world...

. The RARE had applied the name "Cape Light" to part of the extremity of Smith Peninsula
Smith Peninsula
Smith Peninsula is an ice-covered, "dog-legged" peninsula 25 nautical miles long and 10 nautical miles wide, extending in an easterly direction between Keller and Nantucket Inlets on the east coast of Palmer Land...

, but that name is now dropped as Cape Fiske
Cape Fiske
Cape Fiske is a cape which forms the east tip of Smith Peninsula, on the east coast of Palmer Land.- Charting :This cape was photographed from the air by members of the US Antarctic Service in December 1940, and in 1947 by members of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Ronne, who in...

provides adequate reference to that feature.
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