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Young, Mount: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Young, Mount in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Young, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 16888

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 84° 27' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 179° 48' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -84.45

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 179.8

Elevation (see definition): 770

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1962

Description (see definition): A small peak, 770 m, at the N end of a spur on the E side of Ramsey Glacier, just S of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp on the flights of Feb. 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 (ByrdAE), 1928-30 and 1933-35.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Young, Mount in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Young, Mount information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Young, Mount should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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