Mount Moore (Antarctica)
| Mount Moore | ||
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| height | 2270 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 25 ′ 27 " S , 97 ° 48 ′ 30" W | |
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Mount Moore is a 2270 m high and isolated mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . Only 305 m of its total height protrudes above the surrounding ice. It is located 13 km north of Mount Woollard and around 240 km west of the Heritage Range in the Ellsworth Mountains .
An American team led by the geophysicist Charles Bentley discovered him on February 4, 1958 while crossing Marie-Byrd-Land . Namesake is Lieutenant John Pinkney Moore (1928–1955) of the United States Navy Reserve Forces , a pilot stationed on the USS Atka who died on January 22, 1955 in a helicopter crash as a result of a whiteout near Kainan Bay .
Web links
- Mount Moore in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Moore on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 1059-1060 (English).