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==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||
It was sighted by Rear Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] on December 5, 1929, while on an airplane flight over this coast, and was named by Byrd for Hugh C. Mitchell, a mathematician of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and a member of the National Geographic Society committee of experts which determined that Byrd reached both the North Pole and the [[South Pole]] by airplane in 1926 and 1929, respectively. | It was sighted by Rear Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] on December 5, 1929, while on an airplane flight over this coast, and was named by Byrd for Hugh C. Mitchell, a mathematician of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and a member of the National Geographic Society committee of experts which determined that Byrd reached both the North Pole and the [[South Pole]] by airplane in 1926 and 1929, respectively. | ||
==Noble title== | |||
As part of the [[20th Anniversary Honors and Appointments]] celebrating [[Westarctica]]'s 20 years of sovereignty, [[Baron Stogner]], who had previously held a title from the defunct [[Kingdom of Vikesland]] was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica|peerage title]] Baron Mitchell. | |||
[[Category:Mountains]] | [[Category:Mountains]] | ||