Mount Allan Thomson
| Mount Allan Thomson | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Allan Thomson is a 1400 m high mountain with a black peak in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the north side of the Mackay Glacier about 5 km west of the confluence of the Cleveland Glacier .
The mountain was mapped and named in the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after the New Zealand geologist James Allan Thomson (1881–1928), who helped prepare the scientific reports on the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Mount Allan Thomson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Allan Thomson on geographic.org (English)