Vaughan Promontory
| Vaughan Promontory | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 8 ′ S , 167 ° 35 ′ E | |
The Vaughan Promontory is a high, rugged and ice-covered promontory in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . Starting from the Holland Range , it stretches in an easterly direction between the Ekblad Glacier and the Morton Glacier and ends at Cape Maude on the Shackleton Coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Commander Vie John Vaughan (1917–1977) of the United States Navy , captain of the USS Glacier during Operation Deep Freeze from 1964 to 1965.
Web links
- Vaughan Promotory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vaughan Promotory 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. 1634 (English).