Shoulder Mountain
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Shoulder Mountain is a prominent, triangular rock buttress over 1,000 m, on the north side of the lower Fry Glacier
and close south of Mount Creak
in Victoria Land
. Mapped and given this descriptive name by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
, 1956-58.
Fry Glacier
Fry Glacier is a glacier draining the slopes at the northeast corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the south end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land. First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for A.M. Fry, a contributor to the expedition....
and close south of Mount Creak
Mount Creak
Mount Creak is a sharp peak, 1,240 m, just north of Shoulder Mountain in the south end of the Kirkwood Range. Discovered by the Discovery expedition which named this peak for Captain E.W. Creak, Director of Compasses at the Admiralty....
in Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. Mapped and given this descriptive name by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...
, 1956-58.