Mount Dergach
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Mount Dergach is a flat-topped, ice-covered mountain
located just west of Ob' Bay and south of Lunik Point
, in the Bowers Mountains
. Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Surveyed by Soviet Antarctic Expedition
in 1958 and named after meteorologist A.P. Dergach, a member of Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1959–61, who perished in a fire at Mirnyy Station on August 3, 1960.
Mountain
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located just west of Ob' Bay and south of Lunik Point
Lunik Point
Lunik Point is an ice-covered coastal point, lying 3 nautical miles northeast of Mount Dergach on the west side of Ob' Bay. Photographed and plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1958, and named after the first Soviet moon module ....
, in the Bowers Mountains
Bowers Mountains
Bowers Mountains is a group of north-south trending mountains in Antarctica, about 145 km long and 56 km wide, bounded by the coast on the north and by the Rennick, Canham, Black and Lillie glaciers in other quadrants. The seaward end was first sighted in February 1911 from the Terra...
. Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Surveyed by Soviet Antarctic Expedition
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR....
in 1958 and named after meteorologist A.P. Dergach, a member of Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1959–61, who perished in a fire at Mirnyy Station on August 3, 1960.