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Mount McClintock

Index Mount McClintock

Mount McClintock is the highest mountain in the Britannia Range in Antarctica, surmounting the south end of Forbes Ridge, east of Mount Olympus. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 21 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Britannia Range (Antarctica), Byrd Glacier, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Dartmouth, Devon, Darwin Glacier (Antarctica), Discovery Expedition, Hughes Basin, Leopold McClintock, McMurdo Sound, Mount Aldrich, Mount Henderson (Britannia Range), Operation Deep Freeze, Operation Highjump, Richard E. Byrd, River Dart, Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, Ultra-prominent peak, University of Alaska System.

  2. Britannia Range (Antarctica)
  3. Mountains of Oates Land

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Britannia Range (Antarctica)

The Britannia Range is a range of mountains bounded by the Hatherton Glacier and Darwin Glacier on the north and the Byrd Glacier on the south, westward of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

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Byrd Glacier

The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide.

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Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole.

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Dartmouth, Devon

Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.

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Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)

The Darwin Glacier is a large glacier in Antarctica.

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Discovery Expedition

The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843).

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Hughes Basin

Hughes Basin is a large basinlike névé which is bounded except to the south by the Ravens Mountains, Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush. Mount McClintock and Hughes Basin are Britannia Range (Antarctica).

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Leopold McClintock

Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (8 July 1819 – 17 November 1907) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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McMurdo Sound

The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.

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Mount Aldrich

Mount Aldrich is a massive, somewhat flat-topped mountain standing at the east side of Ragotzkie Glacier in the Britannia Range, Antarctica. Mount McClintock and mount Aldrich are Britannia Range (Antarctica) and mountains of Oates Land.

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Mount Henderson (Britannia Range)

Mount Henderson is a prominent mountain. Mount McClintock and mount Henderson (Britannia Range) are Britannia Range (Antarctica) and mountains of Oates Land.

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Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on.

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Operation Highjump

Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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River Dart

The River Dart is a river in Devon, England, that rises high on Dartmoor and flows for to the sea at Dartmouth.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.

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University of Alaska System

The University of Alaska System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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See also

Britannia Range (Antarctica)

Mountains of Oates Land

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_McClintock

Also known as Berry Bastion, Cohn Bluff, Dartmouth Peak, Dusky Ledge, Dusky Ridge, Forbes Ridge, Icenhower Ridge, Johnstone Ridge, Moore Pinnacle, Mount Askin, Mount Olympus (Antarctica), Mt McClintock, Warburton Ledge.