Mount Kolp
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Mount Kolp is a mostly ice-free coastal mountain
, 1,010 m, standing 7 nautical miles (13 km) west-northwest of Cape Laird
, along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf
. It was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Colonel H.R. Kolp, United States Marine Corps
(USMC), executive officer of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6
in Antarctica during Operation Deepfreeze I (1955–56).
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...
, 1,010 m, standing 7 nautical miles (13 km) west-northwest of Cape Laird
Cape Laird
Cape Laird is a rocky cape 8 nautical miles northwest of Cape May, along the west side of Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for Malcolm G. Laird, a NZGSAE geologist who took a special interest in the peneplain surface above the cape's granite...
, along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...
. It was 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 Colonel H.R. Kolp, United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
(USMC), executive officer of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6
VX-6
Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...
in Antarctica during Operation Deepfreeze I (1955–56).