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Mount Nilsen
Mount
Nilsen
is a
peak
4
nautical miles
west-southwest
of
Mount Paterson
in the
Rockefeller Mountains
, on
Edward VII Peninsula
.
Discovered
in
1929
by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
, and named by
Byrd
for
Captain Nilsen
of the
Norwegian
whaler C.A.
Larsen
, which
towed
the
City of New York
through the
pack ice
.