Mount Basurto

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Mount Basurto
height 2000  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 76 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 76 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Basurto (Antarctica)
Mount Basurto

Mount Basurto is an ice-free and 2000  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range , it looms at the southern end of Noring Terrace .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Juan T. Basurto, logistician of the United States Antarctic Program , who was continuously responsible for the transport of materials to and from the McMurdo station between 1986 and 2007 .

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