Mount Simpson
| Mount Simpson | ||
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 Map of Thurston Island with Mount Simpson (left half of the picture) |
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| location | Thurston Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Walker Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Simpson is a mountain on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Walker Mountains it rises immediately to the west of the head end of the Hale Glacier .
It was first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946-1947) in December 1946. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1960 after Lieutenant B. L. Simpson Jr. of the Navy Squadron VX-6, pilot one Lockheed P2V Neptune to take additional aerial photographs of the area in January 1960.
Web links
- Mount Simpson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Simpson on geographic.org (English)