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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Young Head (USA) 81° 29' 00.0" S 161° 24' 00.0" E Head
Name ID: 133933 Place ID: 16381

A prominent rock headland, 350 m, marking the N side of the entrance to Beaumont Bay on the W side of the Ross Ice Shelf Named by US-ACAN for CWO Victor Young, USN, member of the Mobile Construction Battalion party at Little America V, winter 1956.

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