Mount Bramhall

Map of Thurston Island.

Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Mount Bramhall (72°15′S 98°16′W / 72.250°S 98.267°W / -72.250; -98.267Coordinates: 72°15′S 98°16′W / 72.250°S 98.267°W / -72.250; -98.267) is a peak of the Walker Mountains, located 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Mount Hawthorne on Thurston Island. It was first delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Dr. E.H. Bramhall, a physicist of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1933–35.^[1]

See also

• Mountains in Antarctica

Maps

• Thurston Island – Jones Mountains. 1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Bramhall, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).