Thomas Hills (Antarctica)
| Thomas Hills | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 21 ′ S , 65 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Thomas Hills are a straight line of hills in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . They stretch for around 27 km between the Foundation Ice Stream and the MacNamara Glacier at the northern end of the Patuxent Range in the Pensacola Mountains .
The area was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1968 at the suggestion of polar explorer Finn Ronne after Charles Sparks Thomas (1897-1983), a secretary of the US Navy during the first Operation Deep Freeze .
Web links
- Thomas Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thomas Hills on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1561 (English).