Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Young, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Young (The name as it would appear on a map)
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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 small peak, 770 m, at the N end of a spur on the E side of Ramsey Glacier, just S of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered and photographed by USN Operation HighJump on the flights of Feb. 16, 1947, and named by US-ACAN after Henry Richard Young of New Zealand, who was a mechanic on the ByrdAE, 1928-30 and 1933-35.
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