Coordinate: S 82.6832, W 104.393
Transportation: Twin Otter/Basler
Closest operations HUB: 383km to WAIS
GPS
Station ID: WHTM
Installed: 2009-2010 season
Former Projects: WAGN
Former Names: W09B
Seismic
Station ID: WHIT
Installed: 2009-2010 season
Former Projects:
Former Names:
An isolated group of mountains in West Antarctica, consisting of three mountains and a cluster of nunataks extending over 15 miles. The group was visited and surveyed on Jan. 2, 1959, by William H. Chapman, cartographer with the Horlick Mountains Traverse Party (1958-59). Named by Chapman for George D. Whitmore, Chief Topographic Engineer, USGS, who was a member of the Working Group on Cartography of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=133658).