Mount Hofmann
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 Topographic map with Mount Hofmann south of the Nimrod Glacier (slightly below center) |
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Hofmann is a snowy and 2000 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range it rises between the mouths of the Hamilton and Heilman glaciers in the Nimrod glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the German cartographer and photogrammetrist Walther Hofmann (1920–1993), who from 1962 worked on the Ross Ice Shelf until 1963 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program and served as chairman of the German Society for Polar Research from 1973 to 1976 .
Web links
- Mount Hofmann in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hofmann on geographic.org (English)