Burmester Dome
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height | 2095 m | |
location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 83 ° 20 ′ 5 ″ S , 51 ° 3 ′ 13 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
The Burmester Dome is a 2095 m high, icy and domed mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains it rises from the west-central Saratoga Table .
At the suggestion of geologist Arthur B. Ford of the United States Geological Survey , the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain after the geologist Russell F. Burmester of Western Washington University , who worked in the Forrestal Range from 1978 to 1979.
Web links
- Burmester Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burmester Dome on geographic.org (English)