Burmester Dome

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 Coordinates: 83 ° 20 ′ 5 ″ S , 51 ° 3 ′ 13 ″ W
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.

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