Name details

Mount Youngman

Youngman, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Youngman  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140094

Feature type: Knoll

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A snow-covered coastal mountain c.620m, 7km southeast of Scott Nunataks in the Alexandra Mountains. It stands at the head of Cumbie Glacier and overlooks Swinburne Ice Shelf and Sulzberger Bay which are just northward.

Named For

Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1964-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Samuel A. Youngman, U.S. Navy (USN), medical officer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, during Operation Deep Freeze 1969 and 1970.

Location

Latitude:
77° 14' 51.9" S
-77.24776°
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Longitude:
154° 19' 25.4" W
-154.32373°
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Altitude:
604 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 18_24 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
19-Dec-2019

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