Burrage Dome
| Burrage Dome | ||
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| height | 840 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Burrage Dome is a 840 m high, mostly icy and dome-shaped mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Prince Albert Mountains, it rises 6.5 km northeast of the summit of Mount Joyce .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1956 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Roy E. Burrage Jr., construction mechanic for the 1966 winter team on the Amundsen- Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Burrage Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burrage Dome on geographic.org (English)