Mount Frontz
Mount Frontz | ||
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height | 2010 m | |
location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Wisconsin Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 85 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 131 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Frontz is a 2010 m high and prominent mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Horlick Mountains, it rises in the western Wisconsin Range between Mount Vito and Griffith Peak on the eastern flank of the Reedy Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Lieutenant Commander Leroy Frontz (* 1934), aircraft commander in Operation Deep Freeze in 1966 and 1967.
Web links
- Mount Frontz in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Frontz on geographic.org (English)