Flagship Mountain
Mountain in antarctica
title: "Flagship Mountain" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountains-of-victoria-land", "scott-coast"] description: "Mountain in antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountains-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_Mountain" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Mountain in antarctica ::
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| Field | Value |
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| location | Victoria Land, Antarctica |
| map | Antarctica |
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| name = | other_name = | photo = | photo_size = | photo_alt = | photo_caption = | elevation_m = | range = | parent_peak = | location = Victoria Land, Antarctica | map = Antarctica | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_relief = | map_size = | label = | label_position = | coordinates = Flagship Mountain () is a prominent, conical rock peak, 1,720 m high, surmounting the south part of the large rock mass between Northwind Glacier and Atka Glacier.
Exploration and naming
Flagship Mountain was named by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the CTAE (1956–1958) after the USS Glacier, flagship of the American convoy into McMurdo Sound in the 1956–1957 season, and closely associated with the area in other years.
Features
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/C76198s1_Ant.Map_Convoy_Range.jpg" caption="Flagship Mountain is to the northeast of the Convoy Range, in the lower part of the map"] ::
Features in the vicinity of Flagship Mountain include,
Barnacle Valley
Blorenge Buttress
A prominent, orange-colored pillar of sandstone, 2.2 nmi west of the summit of Flagship Mountain at the west end of Viking Hills. The pillar is flanked to the west by steep blue ice and a huge windscoop from Flight Deck Neve and rises sheer from a large ice-free area to the north. The feature was geologically mapped by Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions (VUWAE), 1976-77, led by Christopher J. Burgess who named it after a similar feature in Wales, Great Britain.
Taff y Bryn
Toddy Pond
Tigerstripe Ridge
Sunker Nunataks
Matchless Mountain
Glover Hills
Mars Hills
Viking Hills
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-01-30 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names|year=1995}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17448 |name=Blorenge Buttress}}
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