Mount Zinkovich
| Mount Zinkovich | ||
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| height | 2280 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Zinkovich is a 2280 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 6.5 km north of Mount Frost on the northern flank of the origin of the Silk Glacier in the Churchill Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Lieutenant Colonel Michael C. Zinkovich (1918-2002) of the United States Air Force , commander of the 1710th Aerial Port Squadron, which was responsible for supplying various research stations in Antarctica as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1962 was responsible.
Web links
- Mount Zinkovich in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Zinkovich on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1746 (English).