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For the California wine region with a similar name, see Howell Mountain AVA.
Mount Howell (72°14′S 99°3′W / 72.233°S 99.05°W) is a mountain 3 nautical miles (6 km) south-southwest of Mount Borgeson in the Walker Mountains, Thurston Island. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant Commander John D. Howell, pilot and airplane commander in the Eastern Group of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, which obtained aerial photographs of this mountain and coastal areas adjacent to Thurston Island, 1946-47. Commander Howell landed a PBM Mariner seaplane in open water of eastern Glacier Bight, January 11, 1947, in rescuing six survivors of a December 30 Mariner crash on Noville Peninsula.
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