Mount Frakes
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| File:MountFrakesSteere.jpg
Mounts Frakes (left) and Steere (right) from the northeast.
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 Mount Frakes
Antarctica
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| Location | Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica |
| Parent range | Crary Mountains |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Shield volcano |
| Last eruption | Unknown |
Mount Frakes is a prominent shield volcano marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.[1]
The mountain was mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lawrence A. Frakes, United States Antarctic Program geologist who worked three summer seasons in the Falkland Islands and Antarctica, 1964-65 through 1967-68.[1]
File:CraryMtnsMap.jpg
Topographic map of Mounts Frakes and Steere (1:250,000 scale) from USGS Crary Mountains
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Frakes
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Antarctica Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
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