Mount Frakes
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| Mount Frakes | |
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 Mounts Frakes (left) and Steere (right) from the northeast. |
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| Elevation | 3,654 metres (11,998 feet) |
| Location | Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica |
| Range | Crary Mountains |
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| Type | Shield volcano |
Mount Frakes is a prominent mountain marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
Mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lawrence A. Frakes, USARP geologist who worked three summer seasons in the Falkland Islands and Antarctica, 1964-65 through 1967-68.
[edit] Sources
- LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union, 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
- Amar Andalkar's Ski Mountaineering and Climbing Site. Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond (1997–2007). Retrieved on 2005-01-14.
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