Mount Frost () is a
mountain, 2,350 m, in the
Churchill Mountains
The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier.
Seve ...
of Antarctica, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of
Mount Zinkovich, at the south side of the head of
Silk Glacier
Silk Glacier () is a glacier, 10 miles (16 km) long, draining the east slopes of the Churchill Mountains between Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to enter Nursery Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committe ...
. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Colonel
Foy B. Frost,
United States Air Force (USAF), commanding officer of the
Ninth Troop Carrier Squadron, which furnished C-124 Globemaster airlift support between
New Zealand and the Antarctic and from
McMurdo Sound inland to Byrd, Eights, and
South Pole Stations
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...
during
U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze 1962.
References
Mountains of Oates Land
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