Mount Prince

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Mount Prince
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height 640  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Perry Range
Coordinates 74 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  S , 134 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 74 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  S , 134 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  W.
Mount Prince (Antarctica)
Mount Prince
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Mount Prince is a 640  m high and distinctive witness mountain on the Hobbs coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It marks the northern end of the Perry Range .

Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed it from the air. The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1959 and 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Joseph F. Prince, aircraft engineer of the Navy squadron VXE-6, who participated in some campaigns of operation Deep Freeze competition and on the station Little America V (1956) and on the McMurdo station had wintered (1966).

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