Mount Gozur () is a mountain, high, in the

Maglenik Heights Maglenik Heights ( bg, Мъгленишки възвишения, ‘Maglenishki Vazvisheniya’ \'m&-gle-nish-ki v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising to 2752 m

of the central Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains of

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

, situated just northwest of the head of

Young Glacier Young Glacier () is a glacier which flows from Mount Gozur and Ichera Peak in Maglenik Heights eastwards for 8 miles (13 km) and terminates at the north end of Barnes Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in An ...

and east of

Mount Bentley Mount Bentley () is a mountain (4,245 m) standing north of Mount Anderson in the main western ridge of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957–58, and named for Dr. Charles R. Bentle ...

. It was first mapped by the

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from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, from 1957 to 1959, and 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 ...

for Captain Alexander Gozur of the

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, who participated in establishing the South Pole Station in the 1956–57 season.

Maps

Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub

See also

Maps

References