Mount Plummer (Palmerland)

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Mount Plummer
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height 1474  m
location Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 73 ° 17 '36 "  S , 63 ° 11' 23"  W Coordinates: 73 ° 17 '36 "  S , 63 ° 11' 23"  W
Mount Plummer (Palmerland) (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Plummer (Palmerland)

Mount Plummer is a 1474  m high Nunatak in the Palmerlands on the Antarctic Peninsula, which is distinctive due to its steep-sided summit ridge . It rises 8 km west-northwest of Mount Heer .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2017. It is named after the US geologist Charles C. Plummer from the United States Geological Survey , who worked in Palmerland from 1969 to 1970.

Web links

  • Plummer, Mount . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and the South Orkney Islands (English)