Mount Bower

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Mount Bower (72°37′S, 160°30′E) is a prominent mountain (2,610 m) standing 6 miles (10 km) east-northeast of Roberts Butte in the Outback Nunataks. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-64, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John R. Bower, ionospheric physicist at South Pole Station, 1968.

This article incorporates text from Mount Bower, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.