Mount Butler

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Mount Butler
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Butler (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Butler (bottom left)

location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Butler (Antarctica)
Mount Butler
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Mount Butler is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises on the Edward VII Peninsula as the southernmost peak of the Rockefeller Mountains .

It was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The designation took place in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), also led by Byrd . It is named after the American cartographer Raymond Archibald Butler (1906–1982), who was involved in the construction of a seismic station in the Rockefeller Mountains on the last research trip in December 1940 .

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