Howell, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Howell (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A mountain 3 mi SSW of Mount Borgeson in the Walker Mountains, Thurston Island. Named by US-ACAN after Lt. Cdr. John D. Howell, pilot and airplane commander in the Eastern Group of USN Operation Highjump, which obtained aerial photographs of this mountain and coastal areas adjacent to Thurston Island, 1946-47. Cdr. Howell landed a PBM Mariner seaplane in open water of eastern Glacier Bight, Jan. 11, 1947, in rescuing six survivors of a Dec. 30 Mariner crash on Noville Peninsula.
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