Mount Lopez
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Mount Lopez () is a peak of the Walker Mountains, located 5 miles (8 kilometres) east of Landfall Peak in the west part of Thurston Island. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez, U.S. Navy, a member of the expedition who lost his life in a seaplane crash at Thurston Island on December 30, 1946.
This article incorporates text from Mount Lopez, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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