Mount Hush

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Mount Hush
height 1400  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  S , 161 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  S , 161 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Hush (Antarctica)
Mount Hush

Mount Hush is a 1400  m high, steep and non-iced mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it is connected to the central eastern part of the Kuivinen Ridge by a saddle . The mountain extends in an east-northeast direction over a distance of 1.5 km into the Ringer Valley to the Ringer Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2007 after the couple Michael Hush and Christine Hayslip Hush, who between 1988 and 2007 as part of the United States Antarctic Program as members of the Navy squadron VXE-6 at McMurdo Station and later for the company Antarctic Support Associates and Raytheon Polar Services .

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