Mount Macbain
| Mount Macbain | ||
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| height | 2205 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mount Macbain is a distinctive and 2205 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range, it looms between the mouths of the Cornwall and Helm glaciers and the Lowery glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Merle Macbain (1904-1991), who served as a public relations officer for the United States Navy Support Unit in Antarctica in Operation Deep Freeze from 1957 to 1958 and from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Mount Macbain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Macbain on geographic.org (English)