Mount Dumais
| Mount Dumais | ||
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| height | 1830 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 1 '59 " S , 64 ° 30' 0" W | |
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Mount Dumais is a 1,830 m high and cliff-like mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the southern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains it rises 3 km north of the Lekander Nunatak on the southwestern edge of the Mackin Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Lieutenant Clarence C. Dumais (1927-1998), officer on duty on the Amundsen -Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960.
Web links
- Mount Dumais in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dumais on geographic.org (English)