Feature Name (see definition): Chaudoin, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 19129

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 77° 09' 15" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 01' 30" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -77.1541667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 162.025

Elevation (see definition): 1400

Decision Year (see definition): 01/15/2008

Description (see definition): An abrupt mountain rising to about 1400 meters in the west part of Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land. The mountain forms part of the divide between Bachtold Glacier and the head of Griffiths Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2007) after YNC Robert L. Chaudoin U.S. Navy (USN) (Seabees), who at the time was the Senior Administrative Yeoman to the commanding officer and member of the construction crew which built the original McMurdo Station and the original South Pole Station in the 1955-57 pre-IGY period. He also was the first U.S. Navy Postal Clerk at the South Pole Station, 1956.

Date Created (see definition): 01/21/2008

Date Edited (see definition): No data