- Mount Dawson
Mount Dawson (coord|77|46|S|86|21|W|display=inline,title) is a sharp, pyramidal
mountain (2,695 m) located 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest ofMount Reimer in theSentinel Range ,Ellsworth Mountains . Discovered by theMarie Byrd Land Traverse Party , 1957-58, and named after MajorMerle R. Dawson (d.1986), USA, leader of theArmy-Navy Trail Party which established an oversnow route fromLittle America V to the site ofByrd Station inNovember-December 1956;Project Manager forShip Operations in the Office ofPolar Programs ,National Science Foundation (NSF), 1965-70.
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