Mount Morgan (Antarctica)
| Mount Morgan | ||
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| height | 999 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Morgan is a 999 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges it rises 8 km northeast of Mount Swan .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Charles Gill Morgan (1906-1980), geologist of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Mount Morgan in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Morgan on geographic.org (English)