Mount Moore () is an isolated
quartzitic mountain mass that rises 305 m above the snow surface of western
Antarctica.
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
The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, long and wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range is complex, consisting of scattered ridges and peaks of ...
,
Ellsworth Mountains. It was discovered by the
Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party 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.
References
Moore, Mount
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