Mount Fridovich
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Mount Fridovich is a small mountain
, 440 m, standing at the north side of the terminus of Leverett Glacier
and marking the west limit of Harold Byrd Mountains
. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant (j.g.) Bernard Fridovich, U.S. Navy, meteorologist with the winter party at McMurdo Sound
, 1957.
Mountain
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, 440 m, standing at the north side of the terminus of Leverett Glacier
Leverett Glacier
Leverett Glacier in Antarctica is about 80 km long and 4 to 6 km wide, draining northward from the Watson Escarpment, between the California and Stanford Plateaus, and then trending WNW between the Tapley Mountains and Harold Byrd Mountains to terminate at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf...
and marking the west limit of Harold Byrd Mountains
Harold Byrd Mountains
Harold Byrd Mountains is a group of exposed mountains and nunataks which extend in an east-west direction between the lower part of Leverett Glacier and the head of the Ross Ice Shelf Discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould, and named by...
. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant (j.g.) Bernard Fridovich, U.S. Navy, meteorologist with the winter party at McMurdo Sound
McMurdo Sound
The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound opens into the Ross Sea to the north. The Royal Society Range rises from sea level to 13,205 feet on the western shoreline. The nearby McMurdo Ice Shelf scribes McMurdo Sound's southern boundary...
, 1957.