Mount Hummer
Mount Hummer is located in Antarctica
Mount Hummer
Mount Hummer
Highest point
Elevation1,710 m (5,610 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Coordinates83°17′S 50°6′W / 83.283°S 50.100°W / -83.283; -50.100
Geography
LocationAntarctica Pensacola Mountains
Parent rangeForrestal Range

Mount Hummer is a snow-covered, bluff-type mountain on the southwest side of the head of Chambers Glacier, northeast Saratoga Table, in the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1979 after Dr. Michael G. Hummer of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, who was a researcher in biomedicine and the physician at South Pole Station in the winter of 1975.[1]

References

  1. "Hummer, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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