Davis Knoll
| Davis Knoll | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Davis Knoll is a partly icy hill in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises 10 km north of Mount Ester at the head end of the Lucy Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Thomas C. Davis Jr., geologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo Station from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Davis Knoll in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Knoll on geographic.org (English)