Mount Flint
| Mount Flint | ||
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| height | 2695 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | McCuddin Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 128 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Flint is a 2695 m high and distinctive mountain with a rounded peak in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 10 miles northwest of Mount Petras in the McCuddin Mountains .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered it during an overflight on December 15, 1940 and named it Mount Gray without further ado . The United States Geological Survey mapped it in detail between 1959 and 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names rejected the original name and named it in 1966 after the American electrical engineer Robert B. Flint Jr. (* 1940), who was responsible for the United States Antarctic Research program at the Byrd station in 1964, on the polar plateau in 1966 and as an exchange scientist at the Vostok station in 1974 had carried out geophysical and geomagnetic surveys.
Web links
- Mount Flint in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Flint on geographic.org (English)