Flagship Mountain
| Flagship Mountain | ||
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| height | 1720 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Flagship Mountain ( English for flagship mountain ) is a 1720 m high mountain with a conical peak in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It towers over a large massif between the Northwind Glacier and the Atka Glacier in the Convoy Range .
The Northern New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it after the USS Glacier , flagship of the US Union in McMurdo Sound between 1956 and 1957.
Web links
- Flagship Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flagship Mountain on geographic.org (English)