Young Head

	Young Head
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	Geographical location
Coordinates	81 ° 29 ′ S , 161 ° 24 ′ E Coordinates: 81 ° 29 ′ S , 161 ° 24 ′ E
location	Transantarctic Mountains
coast	Shackleton coast
Waters	Ross Ice Shelf
Waters 2	Beaumont Bay

The Young Head is a striking, rocky headland in the form of a cliff up to 350 m high on the Shackleton Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It marks the north side of the entrance to Beaumont Bay .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Chief Warrant Officer Victor Young, who was a group member of the United States Navy's mobile construction battalion at the Little America V research station in the Antarctic winter of 1956 .

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