Mount Nygren

Mount Nygren (65°9′S 63°48′W / 65.15°S 63.8°W / -65.15; -63.8) is an outstanding pointed mountain, bearing the aspect of a stark rock nunatak of pyramidal shape, which rises sharply above the middle of Hotine Glacier in western Antarctic Peninsula. The mountain was photographed from aircraft of U.S. Navy Squadron VXE-6 in 1969. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps, 1970; U.S. observer with the British Antarctic Survey, 1961–62, when he conducted oceanographic research in the Shackleton, John Biscoe, and Kista Dan.

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