Mount Bridger
| Mount Bridger | ||
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 Mt Bridger in the northwest area of the map sheet |
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| height | 2295 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Bridger is a 2295 m high mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises on the south side of the Pearl Harbor Glacier and 8 km north-northeast of Conard Peak in the Cartographers Range of the Victory Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1970 after William D. Bridger (1933-2007), aircraft machinist and flight engineer of machines type LC-130 Hercules on the airfield Williams field in front of Ross island in operation Deep Freeze of the year 1968th
Web links
- Mount Bridger in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bridger on geographic.org (English)