Black Thumb
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Black Thumb is a mountain, 1190 metres (3,904.2 ft) high, with notched and precipitous sides, standing between Romulus Glacier
and Bertrand Ice Piedmont
on the west coast of Graham Land
. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition
under Rymill, 1934–37.
Romulus Glacier
Romulus Glacier is a glacier, 7 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, which flows from the north slopes of Mount Lupa westward to Rymill Bay between the Blackwall Mountains and Black Thumb, on the west coast of Graham Land. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition ...
and Bertrand Ice Piedmont
Bertrand Ice Piedmont
Bertrand Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about long and from wide, lying between Rymill Bay and Mikkelsen Bay on the Fallières Coast of Graham Land.Bertrand Ice Piedmont is bounded on the southeast side by Pavie Ridge and on the northeast side by Black Thumb...
on the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition
British Graham Land Expedition
A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...
under Rymill, 1934–37.