Hammer Col

Hammer Col () is a broad ice-covered col at 3800 m elevation between the south part of Vinson Massif and the Craddock Massif in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. The 1.5-mile wide saddle is relatively level and visually separates the two massifs whether viewed from the east or the west.

Discovery and naming

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2006) after William R. Hammer, Department of Geology, Augustana College, Rockford, IL, U.S. Antarctic Project (USAP) investigator of vertebrate fossils, primarily in the central Transantarctic Mountains, 1977-2003.^[1]

See also

References

"Hammer Col". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:18849. Retrieved 31 May 2010. 

External links

• United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Hammer Col" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).