Mount Morse

Mount Morse

Mount Morse (80°49′S 157°21′E / 80.817°S 157.35°E / -80.817; 157.35) is a mountain rising to over 1800 m at the end of the ridge extending west from Mount Egerton, Churchill Mountains. The feature is 6 nautical miles (11 km) west of the Mount Egerton summit. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Robert M. Morse, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, a United States Antarctic Program (USAP) principal investigator, 1989–2002, including research relating to AMANDA, the Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array near the South Pole Station.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Morse" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).