Thern Promontory
| Thern Promontory | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Eisenhower Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 33 ′ S , 162 ° 6 ′ E | |
The Thern Promontory is an icy promontory up to 2200 m high in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms 11 km west of Mount Nansen the western extension of the Eisenhower Range at its southern end.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Michael G. Thern, engineer at McMurdo Station between 1965 and 1966 and in the Antarctic winter of 1967.
Web links
- Thern Promontory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thern Promontory on geographic.org (English)