Mount Hermanson
| Mount Hermanson | ||
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| height | 3140 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Hermanson is a 3,140 m high and ice-covered mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises around 6.5 km southwest of Gray Peak at the head of the Cunningham Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Captain Joseph Marcus Hermanson (1913-2004) of the United States Navy , flight movement officer at McMurdo Station from 1957 to 1958 and chief of staff of the US Antarctic Projects Officer in 1959.
Web links
- Mount Hermanson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hermanson on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 725 (English).