Henry Mesa (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Henry Mesa (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mesa
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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A distinctive wedge-shaped mesa about 5km across at its northern end and 5.5km north to south, approximately 20km west of Anthony Bluff at Mulock Glacier. The ice-covered summit, about 1500m above sea level, is flat except for a cirque, which indents the northern side.
Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Captain B.R. Henry, USCG, commander of USCGC Eastwind during U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze 1964 and commander of the US ship group during USN Operation Deep Freeze 1965. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.
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