Mount Moses (74°33′S 99°11′W / 74.550°S 99.183°W / -74.550; -99.183) is, at 750 metres (2,460 ft), the highest and most prominent of the Hudson Mountains of Antarctica, located near the center of the group, about 14 nautical miles (26 km) north-northeast of Mount Manthe. It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1946–47, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Robert L. Moses, a geomagnetist and seismologist at Byrd Station in 1967.[1]

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  1. "Mount Moses". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

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