Mount Amherst

Mount Amherst (86°32′S 153°6′W / 86.533°S 153.1°W / -86.533; -153.1) is a peak rising to 2,400 m between Holdsworth Glacier and Scott Glacier, 3 nautical miles (6 km) north-northeast of McNally Peak, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1960-64. The geology of the peak was studied in the 1978-79 season by a United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP)-Arizona State University field party. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Amherst College, Amherst, MA, alma mater of Michael F. Sheridan, a member of the field party.

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