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Mount Rigel
Mount
Rigel
is the
highest
peak
of
Orion Massif
,
Rymill Coast
,
Palmer Land
,
Antarctica
, with an
elevation
of. It was mapped by the
United States Geological Survey
using U.S.
Navy
aerial photographs
taken between
1966
and
1969
and named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in 1976 after the
star
Rigel in the
constellation Orion
.