Mount Moore
Mount Moore (80°25′S 97°45′W / 80.417°S 97.750°W) is an isolated quartzitic mountain mass that rises 305 m above the snow surface of western Antarctica.[1] With only Mount Woollard nearby, 8 nautical miles (15 km) to the south, it stands about 150 nautical miles (280 km) west of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It was discovered by the on 4 February 1958 and is named after Lieutenant John P. Moore, U.S. Navy Reserve, a helicopter pilot aboard the USS Atka, who died in a helicopter crash near Kainan Bay in January 1955.
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- ^ Reports of Antarctic Geological Observations 1956-1960. IGY World Data Center A: Glaciology, American Geographical Society. 1975. p. 146.
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