Mount Booth () is a
peak, high, surmounting the junction of mountain ridges at the southwest end of
Murphy Valley Murphy Valley () is an upland valley on the northeast side of Mount Booth in east Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The valley opens north to Victoria Valley. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Kenneth W. Murphy ...
in the
Olympus Range,
McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
in 2004 after
John F. (Johan) Booth, science technician who wintered eight times at the
United States Antarctic Program Palmer Station and
South Pole Station between 1994 and 2004.
The above paragraph was taken from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) as written when Mount Booth was originally named in January 2004. This database is currently offline. As of 2022, Johan Booth (who passed away on 29 June 2022) has wintered in Antarctica a total of 20 times—six times at
Palmer Station between 1994 and 2004, and 14 times at
South Pole Station between 1995 and 2020.
References
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Mountains of Victoria Land
McMurdo Dry Valleys
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