Name details

Mount Frost

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1675

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A mountain about 2,430 m above sea level, about 7 km south of Mount Zenkovich, at the southern side of the head of Silk Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Lt. Col. F.B. Frost, USAF, commanding officer of the 9th Troop Carrier Squadron, which furnished C-124 airlift support between New Zealand and Antarctica and within Antarctica during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1962.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
81° 12' 00.0" S
-81.20000°
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Longitude:
158° 19' 00.1" E
158.31670°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
27-Aug-1975

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