Mount Bursey
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Mount Bursey is a broad, ice-covered mountain, 2780 metres (9,120.7 ft) high, which forms the eastern end of the Flood Range
in Marie Byrd Land
. It was discovered by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) on aerial flights in 1940, and named for Jacob Bursey, member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30) and dog-driver with the USAS party which sledged to the west end of the Flood Range in December 1940.
Flood Range
The Flood Range is an Antarctic range of large snow-covered mountains extending in an E-W direction for about 96 km and forming a right angle with the southern end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land....
in Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...
. It was discovered by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) on aerial flights in 1940, and named for Jacob Bursey, member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30) and dog-driver with the USAS party which sledged to the west end of the Flood Range in December 1940.