Mount Hummer

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]

Mount Hummer
Mount Hummer
Highest point
Elevation1,710 m (5,610 ft) 
Coordinates83°17′S 50°6′W 
Geography
Location Pensacola Mountains
Parent rangeForrestal Range

References
  1. "Hummer, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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