Mount Booth
| Mount Booth | ||
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| height | 1575 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Booth is a 1575 m high mountain in the Olympus Range of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the junction of several mountain ridges at the southwest end of the Murphy Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2004 after John H. Booth, science technician with the United States Antarctic Program , who was involved in eight Antarctic winter campaigns between 1994 at Palmer Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Mount Booth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Booth on geographic.org (English)