Forsythe Crag

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Forsythe Crag
height 1400  m
location Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica
Mountains Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 25 '52 "  S , 156 ° 14' 40"  O Coordinates: 80 ° 25 '52 "  S , 156 ° 14' 40"  O
Forsythe Crag (Antarctica)
Forsythe Crag

The Forsythe Crag is an irregularly shaped and 1400  m high Nunatak in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range, it rises 6 km east-northeast of the Darnell Nunatak in the southern part of the Hughes Basin in the midst of ice sheets that flow south to the Byrd Glacier . Its flattened summit is surrounded by glacial rock spurs .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2009 after Douglas M. Forsythe, Senior Construction Coordinator at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as part of the United States Antarctic Program from 1994 to 2009.

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