Mount June
| Mount June | ||
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| height | 1090 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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 Topographic map with the Phillips Mountains and Mount June (top right) |
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Mount June is a 1090 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges belonging Phillips Mountains it extends 10 km west of Mount Paige and 6 km south-east of the favela Rocks on.
Participants of the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) led by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered it in 1929. Byrd named the mountain after Harold Irving June (1895–1962), a pilot on the expedition.
Web links
- Mount June in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount June on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harold Irving June. Biographical information on the Stamford Historical Society homepage (accessed September 10, 2017).