Mount Cahill
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Mount Cahill is one of the Sky-Hi Nunataks
in Palmer Land
, rising to 1755 metres (5,757.9 ft) east-northeast of Mount Carrara
. It was named in 1987 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.
Sky-Hi Nunataks
Sky-Hi Nunataks is a nunatak group 8 nautical miles long, located 11 nautical miles east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Palmer Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Lanzerotti, Mount Carrara,...
in Palmer Land
Palmer Land
Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...
, rising to 1755 metres (5,757.9 ft) east-northeast of Mount Carrara
Mount Carrara
Mount Carrara is a mountain rising to near the center of the Sky-Hi Nunataks in Palmer Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Paul E. Carrara, United States Geological Survey geologist, a member of the USGS field party, 1977–78, which carried out geological...
. It was named in 1987 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
after Laurence J. Cahill, Jr., physicist, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
; Principal Investigator
Principal investigator
A principal investigator is the lead scientist or engineer for a particular well-defined science project, such as a laboratory study or clinical trial....
in upper atmospheric physics at Siple Station
Siple Station
Siple Station, Antarctica was a research station in Antarctica , established in 1973 by Stanford's STAR Lab, to perform experiments that actively probed the magnetosphere using very low frequency waves...
and South Pole Station for many years from 1973.