Mount Petinos
| Mount Petinos | ||
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 Topographic map of Shepard Island with Mount Petinos (center) |
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| height | 500 m | |
| location | Shepard Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Petinos is a 500 m high mountain in the northwest of Shepard Island off the Hobbs coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises 1.5 km east-southeast of Worley Point .
Its mapping took place on February 4, 1962 from aboard the icebreaker USS Glacier . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after Lieutenant Frank Petinos (1935-1996), the ship's first officer.
Web links
- Mount Petinos in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Petinos on geographic.org (English)