Mount Segers

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Mount Segers
Elevation 2,460 metres (8,071 feet)
Location Antarctica
Range Sentinel Range
Coordinates 78°25′S 85°21′W

Mount Segers is a peak on the ridge at the east side of the head of Crosswell Glacier, 11 km (7 mi) east of Mount Tyree, in the central part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.

Discovered by US Navy Squadron VX-6 on photographic flights of Dec. 14-15, 1959, and mapped by USGS from these photos. Named by US-ACAN for Chester W. Segers, a Navy cook and a member of the first wintering party at the South Pole Station during the IGY in 1957.

This article is based on a United States Geological Survey gazetteer.