Mount Lopez
| Mount Lopez | ||
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| location | Thurston Island | |
| Mountains | Walker Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Lopez is a peak in the Walker Mountains on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It is located approximately 8 km east of Landfall Peak .
The mountain was first captured in aerial photographs taken as part of Operation Highjump between 1946 and 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1960 after Ensign Maxwell Albert Lopez (1926-1946), who in the course of Operation Highjump on December 30, 1946 when the flying boat George 1 of the type Martin PBM Mariner crashed on the Noville Peninsula in the north Thurston Island was killed.
Web links
- Mount Lopez in the Antarctic Gazetteer (English)
- Mount Lopez in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lopez on geographic.org (English)