Thomas Heights
| Thomas Heights | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ S , 163 ° 52 ′ E | |
The Thomas Heights are a series of mountain ridges in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They extend east from Bettle Peak to the Scott Coast . They form part of the watershed between the lower sections of the Ferrar Glacier and the Blue Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1983 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geologist Robert H. Findlay after Arthur Allan Thomas (* 1938), geologist of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program in this area between 1977 and 1981.
Web links
- Thomas Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thomas Heights on geographic.org (English)