Whitmore Mountains
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Whitmore Mountains () is an isolated group of mountains in West Antarctica, consisting of three mountains and a cluster of nunataks extending over 15 miles. The group was visited and surveyed on January 2, 1959, by William H. Chapman, cartographer with the Horlick Mountains Traverse Party (1958-59). The mountains were named by Chapman for George D. Whitmore, Chief Topographic Engineer of the USGS, who was a member of the Working Group on Cartography of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
This article incorporates text from Whitmore Mountains, 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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