Mount Showers () is a
mountain rising above the
Condor Peninsula
Condor Peninsula () is a mountainous, ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, between Odom Inlet and Hilton Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. The peninsula was first observed and photographed from the air in the course of the United States An ...
, 13 miles (21 km) southwest of
Cape MacDonald Cape MacDonald () is a headland which rises to , forming the south side of the entrance to Odom Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by members of the United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic ...
, on the east coast of
Palmer Land
Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...
. Mapped by
United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by
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 ...
(US-ACAN) for
William Showers,
United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) biologist at
Palmer Station in 1975.
Mountains of Palmer Land
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