Ames Range

A steep, heavily-crevassed glacier draining westward from Mount Andrus in the south part of Ames Range.

Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Master Sergeant Clarence N. Coleman, United States Army, member of the Army-Navy Trail Party that traversed eastward to establish Byrd Station in 1956.

The eastern glacier of two that drain the north slopes of Mount Kosciusko and reach Brown Valley.

Named by US-ACAN for Emmett L. Herbst of Holmes and Narver, Inc., who participated in the drilling program at Byrd Station, 1968-69.

Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Carl H. Andrus, United States Navy, medical officer and Officer-in-Charge of Byrd Station in 1964.

Snow-covered mountain 2,970 metres (9,740 ft) high located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south-southwest of Mount Kosciusko.

Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Commander Thomas L. Boennighausen, CEC, United States Navy, Officer-in-Charge of the nuclear power plant at McMurdo Station, 1966.

He served as Civil Engineer on the staff of the Commander, United States Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1969-70 and 1970-71.

Prominent mountain 2,910 metres (9,550 ft) high that comprises the central portion of the Ames Range.

Named by US-ACAN for Captain Henry M. Kosciusko, United States Navy, Commander of the Antarctic Support Activities group, 1965-67.

Prominent mountain 2,365 metres (7,759 ft) high that surmounts the northwest end of Ames Range.

Kauffman, United States Navy, staff civil engineering officer who supervised the planning and building of Plateau Station, 1965-66.

Ames Range in southeast of map
Map of the Ames Range