Forsythe Crag
Forsythe Crag | ||
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height | 1400 m | |
location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 25 '52 " S , 156 ° 14' 40" O | |
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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.
Web links
- Forsythe Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forsythe Crag on geographic.org (English)