Mount Helms

Mount Helms (82°4′S 87°58′W / 82.067°S 87.967°W / -82.067; -87.967Coordinates: 82°4′S 87°58′W / 82.067°S 87.967°W / -82.067; -87.967) is a rounded, partly snow-covered peak rising between Mount Semprebon and Mount Oldenburg in the central Martin Hills of Antarctica. The peak was positioned by a United States Antarctic Research Program party led by J. Campbell Craddock in January 1963, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Ward J. Helms, a radioscience researcher at Byrd Station in 1962.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Helms, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-06-11.

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