Douglas Gap
Coordinates: 71 ° 5 ′ S , 167 ° 44 ′ E
The Douglas Gap is one with glacial ice stuffed and 2.5 km wide notch in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Anare Mountains , it lies between the Hedgpeth Heights and the Quam Heights .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1970 after Donald S. Douglas, biologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at Hallett Station in the Antarctic summer months from 1959 to 1960 and from 1960 to 1961.
Web links
- Douglas Gap in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Douglas Gap on geographic.org (English)