Mount Gudmundson

Mount Gudmundson
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height	2040 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Cook Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 79 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Gudmundson is a 2040 m high and mostly ice-free mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, it rises 10 km northeast of Fault Bluff .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the demolition expert Julian Peter Gudmundson (1916-2004), who was on the station in 1957 Little America V hibernated and carried out the blasting work for the foundation of the nuclear power station at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze in 1961 .

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