Mount Morse

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Mount Morse (

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80°49′S 157°21′E / 80.817°S 157.350°E / -80.817; 157.350Coordinates: 80°49′S 157°21′E / 80.817°S 157.350°E / -80.817; 157.350) is a mountain rising to over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) at the end of the ridge extending west from Mount Egerton, in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. The feature is 6 nautical miles (11 km) west of the Mount Egerton summit. Mount Morse was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after of the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, a United States Antarctic Program principal investigator from 1989 to 2002, including research relating to the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array near South Pole Station.[1]

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  1. ^ "Mount Morse". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-11-09.

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