Mount Yost

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

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

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Place ID: 20435
Name ID: 140408

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.

Narrative

A mountain with steep slopes on the south and east rising to c.3020m, in Stever Ridge, Victory Mountains, north Victoria Land. Approximately 2.6km east-southeast of Mount Payne.

Named For

Named for Louis (Lou) A. Yost IV, geographer and toponymist. Secretary of United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) 1997-2005, Executive Secretary, U.S. Board on Geographic Names (USBGN) 2006-2019, being offices in the United States of America which include responsibility for geographic nomenclature in Antarctica.

Location

Latitude:
72° 49' 22.2" S
-72.82284°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
167° 56' 19.3" E
167.93869°
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Altitude:
3020 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:
SETSM_WV02_20160926_103001005D73D800_103001005CCCCB00_seg3_2m_v1.0_dem
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
19-Apr-2021

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