Shepherd Dome
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Shepherd Dome is a low dome-shaped mountain
at the north side of Pine Island Glacier
, standing 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Manthe
in the south part of the Hudson Mountains
. Mapped from air photos made by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for Donald C. Shepherd, ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station
, 1967.
Mountain
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at the north side of Pine Island Glacier
Pine Island Glacier
- Ice sheet drainage :The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest mass of ice on earth, containing a volume of water equivalent to of global sea level. The ice sheet forms from snow which falls onto the continent and compacts under its own weight. The ice then moves under its own weight toward the...
, standing 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Manthe
Mount Manthe
Mount Manthe is a mountain standing 5 nautical miles north-northeast of Shepherd Dome, in the south part of the Hudson Mountains. Mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lawrene L. Manthe, meteorologist at Byrd...
in the south part of the Hudson Mountains
Hudson Mountains
The Hudson Mountains is a group of parasitic cones forming nunataks just above the Antarctic ice sheet in west Ellsworth Land. They lie just east of Cranton Bay and Pine Island Bay at the eastern extremity of Amundsen Sea, and are bounded on the north by Cosgrove Ice Shelf and on the south by Pine...
. Mapped from air photos made by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. 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 Donald C. Shepherd, ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station
Byrd Station
Byrd Station refers to a research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by the U.S. Navy during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica at 80°, 120°W...
, 1967.