Hooper Crags
| Hooper Crags | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
The Hooper Crags are a 5 km long ridge in the Royal Society Range of the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises up along the southern flank of the Foster Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1963 after Lieutenant Benjamin F. Hooper of the United States Navy , helicopter pilot of the VX-6 flight squadron at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960.
Web links
- Hooper Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hooper Crags on geographic.org (English)