Dorsey Mountains
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 3 ′ S , 67 ° 3 ′ W | |
The Dorsey Mountains are a mountain range on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northern part of the Arrowsmith Peninsula, they rise immediately east of the Somigliana Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs from the years 1956 to 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them on September 23, 1960 after the US physicist Noah Ernest Dorsey (1873-1959), the had dealt with the laws governing the formation of ice.
Web links
- Dorsey Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dorsey Mountains on geographic.org (English)