Mount Mende is a nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southwest of Mount Lanzerotti

Mount Lanzerotti

Mount Lanzerotti is the northernmost of the Sky-Hi Nunataks, rising to about 1,550 m in Palmer Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Louis J...

, rising to about 1,500 m in the Sky-Hi Nunataks

Sky-Hi Nunataks

Sky-Hi Nunataks is a nunatak group 8 nautical miles long, located 11 nautical miles east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Palmer Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Lanzerotti, Mount Carrara,...

 of Ellsworth Land

Ellsworth Land

Ellsworth Land is that portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of Ronne Ice Shelf. It extends between 103°24'W and 79°45'W...

. 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 1987 after Stephen B. Mende of the Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, a Principal Investigator

Principal investigator

A principal investigator is the lead scientist or engineer for a particular well-defined science project, such as a laboratory study or clinical trial....

 in upper atmosphere research, including auroral studies, carried out at Siple Station

Siple Station

Siple Station, Antarctica was a research station in Antarctica , established in 1973 by Stanford's STAR Lab, to perform experiments that actively probed the magnetosphere using very low frequency waves...

 and South Pole Station from 1973.