Mount Maloney

Mount Maloney is a mountain, 1,990 metres (6,530 ft) high, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) north of Mount Alice Gade at the southeast side of Bowman Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John H. Maloney, Jr., a meteorologist with the South Pole Station winter party, 1960.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Mount Maloney". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-07-30.

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Coordinates: 85°41′S 163°35′W / 85.683°S 163.583°W / -85.683; -163.583


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