Mount Quandary
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Mount Quandary is a 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...

 on the east side and near the head of Hektoria Glacier
Hektoria Glacier
Hektoria Glacier is a glacier flowing south from the area around Mount Johnson into Larsen Ice Shelf just west of Shiver Point, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The name "Hektoria Fiords" was given by Sir Hubert Wilkins during his flight of December 20, 1928, after the S.S...

, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Shiver Point
Shiver Point
Shiver Point is a point, surmounted by a peak 670 m high, 8 miles west of Cape Fairweather on the east coast of Graham Land. Charted during 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1950. The name is suggestive of the cold....

, in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955; the name arose because when first viewed it could not be determined whether the feature was part of the central plateau of Graham Land or a detached summit in Hektoria Glacier.
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