Shinn, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Shinn (The name as it would appear on a map)
If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au
Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A mountain over 4,800 m, standing 4 mi SE of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered on IGY reconnaissance flights in January 1958, and named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Conrad S. (Gus) Shinn, USN, pilot on some of these flights. Shinn was pilot of the Navy R4D aircraft carrying Admiral Dufek which, on Oct. 31, 1956, made the first plane landing at the geographic South Pole.
No images of this place could be found.
Aus_display_scale_20M: | No | Aus_display_scale_10M: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_5M: | No | Aus_display_scale_2M: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_1M: | No | Aus_display_scale_500k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_250k: | No | Aus_display_scale_100k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_50k: | No | Aus_display_scale_25k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_10k: | No | Aus_display_scale_5k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_1k: | No |
Biodiversity
View
fauna,
flora or
both
within 1.0 degree of this location
Place names
View
American or
international
place names within 1.0 degree of this location.