Mount Bridger

Mount Bridger is a mountain, 2,295 metres (7,530 ft) high, along the south side of Pearl Harbor Glacier, situated 5 nautical miles (9 km) north-northeast of Conard Peak in the Cartographers Range, Victory Mountains, in Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for William D. Bridger, a U.S. Navy aviation machinist's mate and flight engineer on Hercules aircraft at Williams Field, Ross Island, on Operation Deep Freeze 1968.[1]

Mount Bridger
Highest point
Elevation2,295 m (7,530 ft)
Coordinates72°17′S 167°35′E
Geography
LocationBorchgrevink Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Parent rangePearl Harbor Glacier, Cartographers Range, Victory Mountains

References
  1. "Bridger, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-09-08.

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