Chapman hump
| Chapman hump | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 12 '53 " S , 67 ° 27' 44" W | |
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The Chapman Hump is an approximately 1000 m high nunatak in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 10 km inland from George VI Sound and the Rymill Coast in the middle of the Chapman Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is the British mountaineer and Arctic explorer Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971), who in 1934 procured 64 Greenland dogs as draft animals for the British Graham Land Expedition under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Chapman Hump in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chapman Hump on geographic.org (English)