Mount Young (Antarctica)

Mount Young (84°27′S 179°48′E / 84.450°S 179.800°E / -84.450; 179.800) is a small peak, 770 metres (2,530 ft), at the north end of a spur on the east side of Ramsey Glacier, just south of the Ross Ice Shelf.[1] Discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump on the flights of February 16, 1947, and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Henry Richard Young of New Zealand, who was a mechanic on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30 and 1933–35.

References

  1. ↑ Alberts, Fred G. (1995). Geographic names of the Antarctic. Arlington: National Science Foundation. p. 829.

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