Mount Borgeson

Map of Thurston Island.

Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Mount Borgeson (72°12′S 99°0′W / 72.200°S 99.000°W / -72.200; -99.000Coordinates: 72°12′S 99°0′W / 72.200°S 99.000°W / -72.200; -99.000) is a peak 5 nautical miles (9 km) east-southeast of Smith Peak in the Walker Mountains of Thurston Island. It was first delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Warren T. Borgeson, a topographic engineer with the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition, who established geodetic control points in this area in February 1960.^[1]

See also

• Mountains in Antarctica

Maps

• Thurston Island – Jones Mountains. 1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Borgeson, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).