Mount Bubier is a

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

visible from seaward, its summit about south of the northern tip of

Edwards Peninsula Edwards Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula about long, between Murphy Inlet and Koether Inlet on the north side of Thurston Island. It was delineated from aerial photographs made by U.S. Navy Operation HIGHJUMP in December 1946 and by U.S ...

Thurston Island Thurston Island is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It is the third-largest island of Antarctica, after Alexander Island and Berkner Isl ...

. It was first delineated from air photos taken by

U.S. Navy Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

in December 1946, and 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 ...

for Kennard F. Bubier, an aviation mechanic on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928–30.

Maps

Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Mountains of Ellsworth Land Thurston Island {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub

See also

Maps

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