Mount Heekin
| Mount Heekin | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Heekin is a large mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it towers over the north side of the mouth of the Baldwin Glacier and the Shackleton Glacier .
Participants of the United States Navy undertaken Operation Highjump (1946-1947) discovered him during a flight on 16 February 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him 1962 after Lieutenant Robert Patrick Heekin (1920-1983), who in this flight acted as a navigator to the geographic south pole.
Web links
- Mount Heekin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Heekin on geographic.org (English)