Mount Borgeson
| Mount Borgeson | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , Ellsworthland | |
| Mountains | Walker Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Borgeson is a mountain on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Walker Mountains it rises 8 km east-southeast of Smith Peak .
Its position was first determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Warren Thomas Borgeson (* 1924), topography engineer during the US Navy research expedition into the Bellingshausen Sea in February 1960, who was involved in the establishment of numerous geodetic survey points in this area.
Web links
- Mount Borgeson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Borgeson on geographic.org (English)