Mount Caywood
| Mount Caywood | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Behrendt Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 18 ′ 9 ″ S , 72 ° 24 ′ 34 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Caywood is a 1500 m high and prominent mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises in the icy valley in the middle of the Behrendt Mountains halfway between Mount Chandler and Mount Huffman .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1967. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Lindsay Patrick Caywood Jr., a geophysicist at Camp Sky-Hi in the vicinity of the Bergs in the Antarctic summer from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Mount Caywood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Caywood on geographic.org (English)