# Mount Moore

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**Mount Moore** ([80°25′S 97°45′W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=80_25_S_97_45_W)) is an isolated [quartzitic](/source/Quartzite) mountain mass that rises 305 m above the snow surface of western [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica).[1] With only [Mount Woollard](/source/Mount_Woollard) nearby, 8 nautical miles (15 km) to the south, it stands about 150 nautical miles (280 km) west of the [Heritage Range](/source/Heritage_Range), [Ellsworth Mountains](/source/Ellsworth_Mountains). It was discovered by the [Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party](/source/Marie_Byrd_Land_Traverse_Party) on 4 February 1958 and is named after Lieutenant [John P. Moore](/source/John_P._Moore), U.S. Navy Reserve, a helicopter pilot aboard the *USS Atka*, who died in a helicopter crash near [Kainan Bay](/source/Kainan_Bay) in January 1955.

## References

1. [*Reports of Antarctic Geological Observations 1956-1960*](https://books.google.com/books?id=U9ZGAAAAYAAJ). IGY World Data Center A: Glaciology, American Geographical Society. 1975. p. 146.

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