Mount Morse

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Mount Morse
height 1800  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 80 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Morse (Antarctica)
Mount Morse

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.

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