Mount Kenney () is a sharp summit, high, in the
Cathedral Peaks
The Cathedral Peaks () form a rugged mountain mass surmounted by several conspicuous peaks, located north of Lubbock Ridge and extending for about along the eastern margin of Shackleton Glacier. From the glacier the peaks resemble the spires a ...
, rising east of
Shackleton Glacier
Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctica, Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km (5 to 10 mi) wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to e ...
and northwest of
Mount Wade
The Prince Olav Mountains is a mountain range of the Queen Maud Mountains in Antarctica stretching from Shackleton Glacier to Liv Glacier at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf.
Discovered in 1911 by Roald Amundsen on the way to the South Pole, and nam ...
, in the
Prince Olav Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
, 1946–47, and was named by the
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 ...
for Lieutenant
Leroy S. Kenney
Leroy or Le Roy may refer to:
People
* Leroy (name), a given name and surname
* Leroy (musician), American musician
* Leroy (sailor), French sailor
Places United States
* Leroy, Alabama
* Le Roy, Illinois
* Le Roy, Iowa
* Le Roy, Kansas
* Le Roy ...
of the
United States Marine Corps Reserve, a helicopter and airplane pilot with U.S. Navy Squadron
VX-6 during
Operation Deep Freeze.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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