Mount Howell
| Mount Howell | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , Ellsworthland | |
| Mountains | Walker Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Howell is a mountain on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Walker Mountains, it rises 3 miles south-southwest of Mount Borgeson .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after Lieutenant Commander John David Howell (1918-2009), aircraft commander of the Eastern Group in Operation Highjump (1946-1947) carried out by the United States Navy to create aerial photographs of this mountain and the coastal regions of the Thurston Island. Howell landed on January 11, 1947 with a Martin PBM Mariner in Glacier Bight to rescue six survivors of the crash of a machine of the same type on December 30, 1946 on the Noville Peninsula .
Web links
- Mount Howell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Howell on geographic.org (English)