Mount Borgstrom
| Mount Borgstrom | ||
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| height | 2610 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Eisenhower Range Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Borgstrom is a 2610 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 km southeast of Mount Meister from the Nash Ridge of the Eisenhower Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1955 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Charles Olaf Borgstrom Jr. (1930-2001), air operations officer of the VX-6 flight squadron during Operation Deep Freeze in 1966.
Web links
- Mount Borgstrom in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Borgstrom on geographic.org (English)