Mount Thompson
| Mount Thompson | ||
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| height | 1690 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 40 ′ 9 ″ S , 62 ° 19 ′ 43 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Thompson is a 1690 m high mountain on the Black Coast of the Palmerland in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula . It towers northwest of Lehrke Inlet over the central part of the Eielson Peninsula .
He was discovered during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . He named the mountain after Andrew Anderson Thompson Jr. (1922–1969), a geophysicist on the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Thompson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Thompson on geographic.org (English)