Heekin, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Heekin (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
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:
A sprawling, irregular mass, almost completely ice-free, with a bowl-shaped depression near the centre, lying between Mincey Glacier on the north and Baldwin Glacier on the south; on the west side of Shackton Glacier. Discovered and photographed by US Navy Operaton Highjump, 1946-47, on the flights of 16 February 1947 and named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieut (jg) Robert P Heekin, USN, Navigator on Flight 8.
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