Mount Thurman
| Mount Thurman | ||
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| height | 780 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Thurman is a 780 m high mountain on the Dufek coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is the highest point of the Bravo Hills , the lower foothills of the Prince Olav Mountains and rises between the mouths of the Gough and Le Couteur glaciers in the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Robert Kenneth Thurman (1914-2015), deputy chief of staff for the operations of the support units of the United States Navy in Antarctica in 1963.
Web links
- Mount Thurman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Thurman on geographic.org (English)