Mount Frost
| Mount Frost | ||
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| height | 2350 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Frost is a 2350 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises about 6.5 km south of Mount Zinkovich on the southern flank of the area where the Silk Glacier was formed.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Lieutenant Col. Foy B. Frost of the United States Air Force , commander of the 9th Troop Transport Squadron, which had helped supply various research stations in Antarctica as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1962 .
Web links
- Mount Frost in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Frost on geographic.org (English)