Mount Hermanson () is an ice-covered mountain in the
Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, high, standing at the head of
Cunningham Glacier, southwest of
Gray Peak. It was named by the
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.
History
The committee was established ...
for Captain
J.M. Hermanson,
U.S. Navy, an air operations officer at
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...
, 1957–58, and Chief of Staff to the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer, 1959.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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