Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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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Feature type: Mountain
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:
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.
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