Mount Morse
Mount Morse | ||
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height | 1800 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Morse is a 1800 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains, it rises from a ridge that extends west from Mount Egerton . It is 10 km from the summit of Mount Egerton.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after the US physicist Robert M. Morse of the University of Wisconsin , who was a senior scientist in the United States Antarctic Program from 1989 to 2002, who was involved in the AMANDA project near the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was involved.
Web links
- Mount Morse in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Morse on geographic.org (English)