Davis Promontory
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 41 ′ S , 96 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Davis Promontory is a completely snow-covered and south-facing promontory in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It looms near the northeast end of the Havola Escarpment .
A team from the United States Antarctic Research Program to explore the Horlick Mountains surveyed the mountains between 1961 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Walter L. Davis (1926-2009), senior construction mechanic in the US Navy, who had wintered at Ellsworth Station in 1957 and Byrd Station in 1960 and between 1960 and 1961 to one had belonged to a team of eleven who reached the geographic South Pole from the Byrd station by means of tractors.
Web links
- Davis Promontory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Promontory on geographic.org (English)