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Mount Bridger
Mount Bridger is located in Antarctica
Mount Bridger
Mount Bridger
Location in Antarctica
Highest point
Elevation 2,295 m (7,530 ft)
Geography
Location Borchgrevink Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Parent range Pearl Harbor Glacier, Cartographers Range, Victory Mountains

Mount Bridger is a mountain, 2,295 metres (7,530 ft) high, along the south side of Pearl Harbor Glacier, situated 5 nautical miles (9 km) north-northeast of Conard Peak in the Cartographers Range, Victory Mountains, in Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for William D. Bridger, a U.S. Navy aviation machinist's mate and flight engineer on Hercules aircraft at Williams Field, Ross Island, on Operation Deep Freeze 1968.

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