Walker Mountains

The Walker Mountains are a range of peaks and nunataks which are fairly well separated but trend east–west to form the axis, or spine, of Thurston Island in Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 11 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Eights Coast, List of glaciers on Thurston Island, Noville Peninsula, Nunatak, Operation Highjump, Richard E. Byrd, Thurston Island, United States Antarctic Program, United States Exploring Expedition, Walgreen Coast.

2. Mountain ranges of Ellsworth Land
3. Thurston Island

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Eights Coast

Eights Coast is a portion of the coast of West Antarctica, between Cape Waite and Pfrogner Point.

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List of glaciers on Thurston Island

This is a list of glaciers on Thurston Island, an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.

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Noville Peninsula

Noville Peninsula is a high ice-covered peninsula about long, between Peale Inlet and Murphy Inlet on the north side of Thurston Island, Antarctica. Walker Mountains and Noville Peninsula are Thurston Island.

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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.

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Operation Highjump

Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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Thurston Island

Thurston Island is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.

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United States Antarctic Program

The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent.

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United States Exploring Expedition

The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States.

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Walgreen Coast

The Walgreen Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Herlacher and Cape Waite, or between Eights Coast on the east and Bakutis Coast in the west.

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See also

Mountain ranges of Ellsworth Land

• Bastien Range
• Behrendt Mountains
• Craddock Massif
• Ellsworth Mountains
• Hauberg Mountains
• Heritage Range
• Jones Mountains
• Merrick Mountains
• Sentinel Range
• Thiel Mountains
• Walker Mountains

Thurston Island

• Lofgren Peninsula
• Noville Peninsula
• Thurston Island
• Tribby Peak
• Walker Mountains

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Mountains

Also known as Dickens Peak, Guy Peaks, Hendersin Knob, Landfall Peak, Litz Bluff, Lowe Nunataks, Mount Borgesen, Mount Borgeson, Mount Bramhall, Mount Caldwell, Mount Hawthorne, Mount Hubbard (Antarctica), Mount Kazukaitis, Mount Leech, Mount Lopez, Mount Noxon, Mount Simpson, Parker Peak, Smith Peak (Antarctica), Zuhn Bluff.

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