Mount Johnstone

Not to be confused with Mount Johnston.

Mount Johnstone (85°3′S 167°45′W / 85.050°S 167.750°W / -85.050; -167.750Coordinates: 85°3′S 167°45′W / 85.050°S 167.750°W / -85.050; -167.750) is a mountain, 1,230 metres (4,040 ft) high, standing at the east side of Liv Glacier, about 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) southwest of Mount Blood, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for C. Raymond Johnstone, a United States Antarctic Research Program logistics officer at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1965.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Johnstone, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-27.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Johnstone, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, November 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.