Mount Cahill
| Mount Cahill | ||
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| height | 1755 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sky-Hi-Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 52 '47 " S , 71 ° 13' 52" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Cahill is a 1755 m high mountain on the border between Ellsworthland and Palmerland in West Antarctica . As one of the Sky-Hi-Nunatakker, it rises east-northeast of Mount Carrara .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1987 after the American physicist Laurence James Cahill Jr. (1924-2013) from the University of Minnesota , who from 1973 worked for many years as research director for atmospheric physics at the Siple Station and the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Mount Cahill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cahill on geographic.org (English)