Thompson Mountain
| Thompson Mountain | ||
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| height | 2350 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Thompson Mountain is a 2,350 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 8 km south of Mount McKerrow in the southwest part of the Surveyors Range .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after Edgar H. Thompson , Professor of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at University College London .
Web links
- Thompson Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thompson Mountain on geographic.org (English)