Hammer Col
| Hammer Col | |||
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| Pass height | 3800 m | ||
| Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Hammer Col is an icy, climbless and around 2.5 km wide mountain pass in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It runs at an altitude of 3800 m between the southern part of the Vinson massif and the Craddock massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the American paleontologist William R. Hammer , who carried out studies on vertebrate fossils primarily from the central part of the Transantarctic Mountains as part of the United States Antarctic Program between 1977 and 2003 .
Web links
- Hammer Col the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hammer Col on geographic.org (English)