Mount Booth () is a peak, high, surmounting the junction of mountain ridges at the southwest end of Murphy Valley in the

Olympus Range Olympus Range () is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over , between Victoria and McKelvey Valleys on the north and Wright Valley on the south. It was mapped by the Victoria University of Wellington Anta ...

McMurdo Dry Valleys The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ice from nearby ...

. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

in 2004 after John F. (Johan) Booth, science technician who wintered eight times at the

United States Antarctic Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

Palmer Station Palmer Station is a United States research station in Antarctica located on Anvers Island, the only US station located north of the Antarctic Circle. Initial construction of the station finished in 1968. The station, like the other U.S. Antarc ...

and

South Pole Station South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sun� ...

between 1994 and 2004. The above paragraph was taken from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) as written when Mount Booth was originally named in January 2004. This database is currently offline. As of 2022, Johan Booth (who passed away on 29 June 2022) has wintered in Antarctica a total of 20 times—six times at

between 1994 and 2004, and 14 times at

between 1995 and 2020.

References

* Mountains of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub