Smith Knob
| Smith Knob | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 87 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Smith Knob is a partially snow-covered mountain peaks in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises about 2 km south-southeast of Mendenhall Peak in the eastern section of the Thiel Mountains .
Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford , who together led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains, named him after the American geologist George Otis Smith (1871-1944), fourth director of the survey from 1907 until 1930.
Web links
- Smith Knob in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smith Knob on geographic.org (English)