LaForrest Rock [SEP] continent
LaForrest Rock
LaForrest Rock () is a rock outcrop west of the mouth of Strom Glacier, along the low, ice-covered north slopes of the Duncan Mountains, Antarctica. This area was first explored and mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30. The rock was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for B.A. LaForrest, a storekeeper on U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze, 1966.
Laforrest H. Thompson
Laforrest H. Thompson (January 6, 1848 – June 22, 1900) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate and a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Biography.
Laforrest Holman Thompson was born in Bakersfield, Vermont on January 6, 1848. He was educated at Kimball Union Academy, taught school while studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1871, and opened a practice in Irasburg.
A Republican, Thompson served as Orleans County State