Mount Kolp

Mount Kolp
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height	1010 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Nash Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	81 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 81 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Kolp is a 1010 m high and mainly non-iced mountain on the Shackleton coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 11 km west-northwest of Cape Laird and immediately east of the Lednik Karlova glacier on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Lieutenant Colonel Hal Richard Kolp (1916-1980) of the United States Marine Corps , officer on duty of the VX-6 flight squadron during the first Operation Deep Freeze (1955-1956).

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