Feature Name (see definition): M'Clintock Bastion

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 9742

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 80° 28' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 022° 28' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -80.4666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -22.4666667

Elevation (see definition): 1400

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Description (see definition): Mountain rising to c. 1,400 m to the W of Mount Kelsey in the Pioneers Escarpment, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967. Surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Admiral Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock, Royal Navy (RN) (1819-1907), British Arctic explorer and pioneer in adopting Eskimo methods of overland travel; he took part in three Franklin search voyages, 1848-54, and commanded Fox, 1857-59, on the voyage to Arctic Canada that finally determined the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition.

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