Cashman Crags
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ' S , 166 ° 51' E | |
The Cashman Crags are two 1,500 m high mountain peaks on the Antarctic Ross Island . They rise 1 km southwest of the Hoopers Shoulder on the western slope of Mount Erebus .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 2000 on the recommendation of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle. It is named after the American volcanologist Katherine Venable Cashman (* 1954), who worked on Mount Erebus from 1978 to 1979 as a Fulbright scholar at Victoria University of Wellington as part of the United States Antarctic Program and continued this work between 1988 and 1989.
Web links
- Cashman Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cashman Crags on geographic.org (English)