Carlstrom Foothills
| Carlstrom Foothills | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 25 ′ S , 159 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Carlstrom Foothills are a group of mountain peaks and ridges in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains they extend over a length of 16 km and with a maximum height of 1690 m in a north-south orientation between Mount Albert Markham and the Kelly Plateau .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named her in 2003 after John Eric Carlstrom (* 1957) from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago , in 2001 project leader at the Center for Astrophysical Research at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Carlstrom Foothills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carlstrom Foothills on geographic.org (English)