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Zanuck, Mount: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Zanuck, 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): Zanuck, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 16912

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 85° 58' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 151° 10' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -85.9666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -151.1666667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1956

Description (see definition): A mountain about 5 mi long surmounted by three sharp peaks in an E-W line, the highest of which rises to 2,525 meters. The feature stands at the S side of Albanus Glacier at the point where the latter joins Scott Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE) flight to the South Pole in November 1929. The mountain was visited in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE) geological party under Quin Blackburn. Named by Byrd for Darryl F. Zanuck, official of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1933-35, in assembling motion-picture records, and later supplied the U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41, with motion-picture projectors.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Zanuck, 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 Zanuck, Mount information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Zanuck, Mount should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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