Mount Crawford (Antarctica)

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Mount Crawford ( 77°43′S, 86°28′W) is a mountain with two summits, 2,360 and 2,255 m, standing 6 kilometres (3.5 miles) northwest of Mount Dawson in the north part of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for William B. Crawford, Jr., of the Branch of Special Maps, U.S. Geological Survey, which prepared the 1962 map of this range.

This article is based on a United States Geological Survey gazetteer.