Mount Bramhall
| Mount Bramhall | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Walker Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 98 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Bramhall is a mountain on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Walker Mountains it rises 8 km east of Mount Hawthorne .
Its position was first determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) in December 1946. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Ervin H. Bramhall (1905-1998), physicist on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Mount Bramhall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bramhall on geographic.org (English)