Feature Name (see definition): Shinn, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 13736

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 78° 27' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 085° 46' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -78.45

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -85.7666667

Elevation (see definition): 4666

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1961

Description (see definition): A mountain over 4,800 m, standing 4 mi SE of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered on IGY reconnaissance flights in January 1958, and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Conrad S. (Gus) Shinn, U.S. Navy (USN), pilot on some of these flights. Shinn was pilot of the Navy R4D aircraft carrying Admiral Dufek which, on Oct. 31, 1956, made the first plane landing at the geographic South Pole.

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