Smiths Bench
| Smiths Bench | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Smiths Bench is a bank-like survey in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 8 km northwest of Mount Baldwin in the Freyberg Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after William M. Smith, a psychologist and member of the team of the United States Antarctic Research Program who traversed and explored the Victoria Lands between 1959 and 1960.
Web links
- Smiths Bench in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smiths Bench on geographic.org (English)