Mount Gozur

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Mount Gozur
height 2980  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  S , 85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  S , 85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Gozur (Antarctica)
Mount Gozur
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Gozur is a 2980  m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises immediately northwest of the head end of the Young Glacier and 14.5 km east of Mount Bentley . It is the highest point in Maglenik Heights .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1957 and 1959. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1961 after Captain Alexander Gozur (* 1929) of the United States Air Force , who lived between 1956 and 1957 was involved in the establishment of the first South Pole station .

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