Mount Dawson (Antarctica)


Mount Dawson is a sharp, pyramidal mountain located 4 km northwest of Mount Reimer in the north part of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It surmounts Vidul Glacier to the east.
The mountain was discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party, 1957–58, and named after Major Merle R. Dawson, USA, leader of the Army-Navy Trail Party which established an oversnow route from Little America V to the site of Byrd Station in November–December 1956; Project Manager for Ship Operations in the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1965–70.