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-[[File:Inspecting the GPS antenna at Toney Mountain.jpg|300px|left]]
+[[File:Viscount of Whitmore.jpg|300px|left]]
-'''[[Toney Mountain]]''' is an elongated [[snow]]-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 meters at Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) southwest of the [[Kohler Range]] in [[Westarctica]].
+His Lordship, the '''[[Viscount of Whitmore]]''', '''Neil Whitmoyer''' is a childhood friend of [[Grand Duke Travis]] and has been a member of [[Westarctica]]'s [[Hereditary Nobility of Westarctica|Hereditary Nobility]] since 15 November 2001, making him the oldest noble of Westarctica aside from the Grand Duke himself.
-A 3 km-wide summit caldera tops the volcano, and is elongated in east-west direction; this orientation is shared with calderas on other volcanoes in Westarctica and reflects regional tectonic stress. The slopes of the volcano feature parasitic vents and glacial corries, and are much steeper north of the volcano than south of it. Toney Mountain was probably among those viewed from a distance by Admiral Byrd and others of the U.S. Antarctic Survey in plane flights from the ship ''Bear'' in February 1940. It was mapped in December 1957 by the oversnow traverse party from Byrd Station to the Sentinel Range, 1957–58, led by C.R. Bentley who proposed the name.
+Prior to becoming a noble of Westarctica, His Lordship served as an Imperial Senator in the short-lived legislature of the [[Kingdom of Casbah]].
-The mountain was after [[George R. Toney]], the scientific leader at [[Byrd Station]] in 1957. Toney was also a participant in several [[Antarctic]] and Arctic operations, serving in both field and administrative capacities.
+The name "Whitmore" comes from the [[Whitmore Mountains]] in southern Westarctica, very near to the [[South Pole]], but is also extremely close to the Viscount's actual last name. From 2001 - 2004, when Westarctica was known as the [[Achaean Territory of Antarctica|Achaean Territory]], Neil held the title "Duke of Whitmore." In October 2004, all titles from the Achaean Territory were either abolished or reduced in precedence and the Duchy was lowered to a Viscounty.
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