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Mount Booth (77°26′S 161°46′E / 77.433°S 161.767°E) is a peak, 1,575 metres (5,170 ft) high, surmounting the junction of mountain ridges at the southwest end of Murphy Valley in the Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2004 after John F. (Johan) Booth, science technician who wintered eight times at the United States Antarctic Program Palmer Station and South Pole Station between 1994 and 2004.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Booth, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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