Mount Holm-Hansen

Mount Holm-Hansen (77°36′S 162°11′E / 77.6°S 162.183°E / -77.6; 162.183) is a prominent mountain rising to 1,920 m between lower David Valley and Bartley Glacier in Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1997 after Osmund Holm-Hansen, plant physiologist, who, working in the 1959-60 season, was one of the first American scientists to visit and conduct research in both Taylor Valley and Wright Valley; Research Biologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1962; extensive field research from 1976 includes studies of microbial populations in McMurdo Sound, the Ross Sea, and other ocean areas south of the Antarctic Convergence.

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