Mount Cahill
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| Mount Cahill | |||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: | Sky-Hi Nunataks | ||
| 74°52’59"S, 71°13’59"W | |||
Mount Cahill is one of the Sky-Hi Nunataks in Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory, rising to 5,758 feet to the east-northeast of Mount Carrara.
This mountains was named in 1987 by the Americans, the name chosen by the ‘Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names’ after Laurence J. Cahill, Jr., physicist, University of Minnesota; Principal Investigator in upper atmospheric physics at Siple Station and South Pole Station for many years from 1973.