Smith Knob is a partly snow-covered rock
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
, or knob, standing one nautical mile (1.9 km) south-southeast of
Mendenhall Peak in the east part of the
Thiel Mountains
The Thiel Mountains are an isolated, mainly snow-capped mountain range of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ellsworth Land region of Antarctica.
The mountain range is long, and is located roughly between the Horlick Mountai ...
of
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
. The name was proposed by
Peter Bermel and
Arthur Ford, co-leaders of the
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...
(USGS) Thiel Mountains party which surveyed these mountains, 1960–61. Named for
George Otis Smith
George Otis Smith (February 22, 1871 – January 10, 1944) was an American geologist.
Life and career
Smith was born in Hodgdon, Maine. He graduated from Colby College in 1893 and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1896. He s ...
, fourth director of the
U.S. Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and ...
, 1907–30.
Hills of Ellsworth Land
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