Mount Swinford
| Mount Swinford | ||
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| height | 1550 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 17 '54 " S , 161 ° 41' 40" E | |
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Mount Swinford is a 1,550 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 4.5 km west-northwest of Mount Harker in the Saint Johns Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1976 after Lieutenant Commander Harold D. Swinford of the United States Navy , who was involved in the operation of the nuclear reactor at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winters of 1963 and 1968 .
Web links
- Mount Swinford in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Swinford on geographic.org (English)