Mount Booth () is a

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, high, surmounting the junction of mountain ridges at the southwest end of Murphy Valley in the Olympus Range,

McMurdo Dry Valleys The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely Antarctic oasis, snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ...

. It was named by the

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in 2004 after John F. (Johan) Booth, a science technician who wintered eight times at the

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Palmer Station and

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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 died 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 the

between 1995 and 2020.

References

* Mountains of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub