Mount Menzies
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Mount Menzies is the culminating 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...

 (3,355 m; 11,007 ft) on the large massif
Massif
In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole...

 between Mount Mather
Mount Mather
Mount Mather is a peak 3.5 nautical miles west of Mount Menzies in the Prince Charles Mountains. Sighted by Flying Officer J. Seaton from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Mapped by an ANARE seismic party of 1957-58 led by Keith B. Mather, for whom it is named....

 and Mount Bayliss, standing on the south side of Fisher Glacier
Fisher Glacier
Fisher Glacier is a prominent western tributary to the Lambert Glacier, about 100 miles long, flowing east past the north sides of Mount Menzies and Mount Rubin and joining the main stream of the Lambert Glacier just east of Mount Stinear. Sighted from ANARE aircraft by K.B. Mather in 1957. Named...

, Antarctica. It was sighted by Flying Officer J. Seaton from an ANARE Beaver aircraft in 1956, and mapped by an ANARE southern seismic party under K.B. Mather in 1957-58. Mount Menzies was named by ANCA after the Rt. Hon. Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....

, Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...

, 1939-41 and 1949-66.
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