Mount Armytage#Thumb Point
{{Short description|Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica}}
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Mount Armytage ({{coord| 76|02|S|160|45|E|name=Mount Armytage}}) is a dome-shaped mountain, {{convert|1,855|m}} high, standing north of Mawson Glacier and {{convert|14|nmi}} west of Mount Smith.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=28}}
It is in the Prince Albert Mountains
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Exploration and name
Mount Armytage was first charted by the Nimrod Expedition (1907–09) which named it for Bertram Armytage, a member of the expedition who was in charge of the ponies.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=28}}
Location
File:C75198s1 Ant.Map MountJoyce.jpg
File:C76198s1 Ant.Map Convoy Range.jpg
Shultz Peak lies at the end of a ridge running south from Mount Armytage.
Beckett Nunatak and The Mitten are to the west of Mount Armytage.{{sfn|Convoy Range USGS}}
The Mitten terminates in Thumb Point.
Mount Joyce is to the north and the Ricker Hills to the northwest.{{sfn|Mount Joyce USGS}}
Mount Murray and the Mawson Glacier are to the southeast.
The very isolated Reckling Peak is to the southwest.{{sfn|Convoy Range USGS}}
Features
Nearby features include:
=Shultz Peak=
{{coord|76|10|S|160|51|E}}.
A sharp peak {{convert|7|nmi}} south of Mount Armytage, where it overlooks the north flank of Mawson Glacier.
Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and Navy air photos.
Named by US-ACAN in 1964 for Lieutenant Willard E. Shultz, United States Navy, supply officer at McMurdo Station, 1962.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=673}}
=Beckett Nunatak=
{{coord|76|02|S|160|11|E}}.
A flattish, mostly bare rock nunatak lying {{convert|9|nmi}} west of Mount Armytage and south of Harbord Glacier.
Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and Navy air photos.
Named by US-ACAN in 1964 for W.T. Beckett, utilities man at McMurdo Station, 1963.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=55}}
=The Mitten=
{{coord|75|59|S|160|30|E}}.
Bare flat-topped mountain, which resembles a mitten when viewed from above, standing {{convert|3|nmi}} northwest of Mount Armytage.
Named by the Southern Party of the NZGSAE (1962-63) because of its shape.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=497}}
=Thumb Point=
{{coord|75|58|S|160|28|E}}.
A rock spur extending from the northwest side of The Mitten, a butte in the Prince Albert Mountains.
Named by the Southern Party of NZGSAE, 1962-63, because the feature resembles the thumb on a mitten.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=746}}
References
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Sources
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- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-01-30 |edition=2
|editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G.
|publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}} {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Board on Geographic Names}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C76198s1_Ant.Map_Convoy_Range.jpg |accessdate=2024-01-02
|title=Convoy Range |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref={{harvid|Convoy Range USGS}} }}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C75198s1_Ant.Map_MountJoyce.jpg |accessdate=2024-02-29
|title=Mount Joyce |publisher=USGS: United States Geographic Board |ref={{harvid|Mount Joyce USGS}} }}
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