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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Place ID: 4993
Name ID: 139416

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

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:

Narrative

A mountain about c.2350m, approximately 7.1km south of Mount Zinkovich, and at the southern side of the head of Silk Glacier, Shackleton Coast.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by US-ACAN 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.

Location

Latitude:
81° 11' 27.7" S
-81.19103°
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Longitude:
158° 18' 20.7" E
158.30576°
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Altitude:
2311 m
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Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 22_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

NULL

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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