Mount Willis
| Mount Willis | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Conway Range , Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Willis is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Cook Mountains rises 3 km south of Mount Chalmers in the southern part of the Conway Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Willis (1925–1981), commander of the USS Wilhoite as a weather ship in support of air operations between Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Station in Operation Deep Freeze in 1961.
Web links
- Mount Willis in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Willis on geographic.org (English)