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'''Downs Cone''' (75°50′S 116°16′W) is one of several small cones or cone remnants along the southwest side of [[Toney Mountain]] in [[Westarctica]]. It is located 3 nautical miles (6 km) west-southwest of Boeger Peak.

==Discovery and name==
The cone was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and [[U.S. Navy]] air photos collected during the years 1959–66. Downs Cone was named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names in honor of Bill S. Downs, a U.S. Navy Air Controlman at Williams Field near McMurdo Station in the 1969–70 and 1970–71 austral summers. He also wintered at Little America V on the [[Ross Ice Shelf]] in 1958.

==Peerage title==
On 8 June 2020, Janae Havard-Hammett, daughter of the [[Tapley Mountains|Duke of Tapley]], was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica|peerage title]] Countess of Downs.

[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]

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