Mount Hook
Highest point
Elevation1,605 m (5,266 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Coordinates83°20′S 50°0′W / 83.333°S 50.000°W / -83.333; -50.000
Geography
LocationAntarctica Pensacola Mountains
Parent rangeForrestal Range

Mount Hook is a mountainous snow-covered projection from the east side of Saratoga Table, 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of Sorna Bluff, in the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1979 after Lieutenant Commander Richard M. Hook of the U.S. Navy, who was a Medical Officer at South Pole Station in the winter of 1968.[1]

References

  1. "Hook, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-06-25.

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