Keating massif
| Keating massif | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 0 ′ S , 156 ° 34 ′ E | |
The Keating massif is a rugged, mainly icy, 20 km long and up to 2370 m high mountain massif in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In Churchill Mountains , it rises on the southern edge of the head end of the Byrd Glacier . Mount Fries belongs to this massif and borders the Zeller Glacier in the southwest .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2003 after the New Zealand politician and diplomat Colin Keating , who was his country's justice minister from 1997 to 2000 and later ambassador to the United Nations .
Web links
- Keating Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keating Massif on geographic.org (English)