Little Thumb

Little Thumb
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height	825 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Blackwall Mountains
Coordinates	68 ° 18 '33 " S , 66 ° 53' 37" W Coordinates: 68 ° 18 '33 " S , 66 ° 53' 37" W.

The Little Thumb (English for little thumb ) is an 825 m high rock tower on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately south of The Spire at the northwestern end of the Blackwall Mountains on the south bank of the Neny Fjord .

Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill made the first measurements . Participants of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey succeeded on January 22, 1948, its first ascent. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it its descriptive name in 1955.

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