Mount Ege
| Mount Ege | ||
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| height | 1350 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 33 '37 " S , 55 ° 51' 12" W | |
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Mount Ege is a 1350 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . It rises between the mountain ridges of Berquist Ridge and Drury Ridge in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the American geologist John R. Ege, who was a member of a team between 1963 and 1964 of the survey in the Neptune Range.
Web links
- Mount Ege in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ege on geographic.org (English)