Mount Simpson
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Mount Simpson () is a peak of the Walker Mountains, rising just west of the head of Hale Glacier on Thurston Island. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant B.L. Simpson, Jr., of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, pilot of the P2V Neptune airplane which took additional air photos of the area in January 1960.
This article incorporates text from Mount Simpson, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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