Gorman Crags
| Gorman Crags | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 1 ′ S , 65 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Gorman Crags are a mountain range characterized by rocky outcrops with an east-west orientation in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Prince Charles Mountains it rises around 8 km east of the Husky Dome .
It was used for mapping aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1960. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Christopher A. J. Gorman, supervisory technician for radio communications at Wilkes Station in 1962.
Web links
- Gorman Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gorman Crags on geographic.org (English)