Crary Knoll
| Crary Knoll | ||
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| height | 1520 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Crary Knoll is a symmetrical, icy and 1,520 m high hill in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 km south-southeast of the Holmes Block in the area of the Skelton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the US geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997), who passed this hill during geophysical measurements on the way to the geographic South Pole and other destinations.
Web links
- Crary Knoll in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crary Knoll on geographic.org (English)