Mount Freeman
Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
title: "Mount Freeman" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountains-of-victoria-land", "borchgrevink-coast"] description: "Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountains-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Freeman" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Mount Freeman |
| elevation_m | 2,880 |
| range | Victory Mountains |
| location | Victoria Land, Antarctica |
| map | Antarctica |
| coordinates | |
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Exploration and naming
Mount Freeman was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960–64. It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Elliott R. Freeman, United States Navy Reserve, a helicopter aircraft commander during Operation Deep Freeze, 1968.
Location
Mount Freeman is in the Victory Mountains above the Borchgrevink Glacier to the south. It is at the center of a line of mountains to the north of the Borchgrevink Glacier from which alternating ridges and glaciers extend north to the Tucker Glacier. These include, from west to east, McElroy Ridge, Stafford Glacier, Walker Ridge, Coral Sea Glacier, Mount Freeman, Carter Ridge, Mount Lepanto, Elder Glacier, Piore Ridge, Oread Spur, Bowers Glacier, O'Neal Ridge, Mount Northampton, Purvis Peak, Crater Cirque, Walsh Spur, Baker Glacier, Martin Hill and Whitehall Glacier.
Features
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/C72189s1_Ant.Map_Cape_Hallet.jpg" caption="in southwest of map"] ::
McElroy Ridge
Judging from the map, this is a description of Hackerman Ridge. Alberts (1995) describes Hackerman Ridge as a large mountainous ridge trending north–south between the Gruendler and Rudolph Glaciers. The map shows McElroy Ridge immediately to the east of Hackerman Ridge, between Rudolf Glacier and Stafford Glacier. }} Mapped in part by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1957-58. Mapped in detail by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for William D. McElroy, Director of the National Science Foundation, 1969-72.
Walker Ridge
Carter Ridge
Mount Lepanto
Piore Ridge
Mount Harrington
Oread Spur
O'Neal Ridge
Mount Northampton
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Spencer_Compton,_2nd_Marquess_of_Northampton.jpg" caption="Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton in 1844"] ::
Purvis Peak
Walsh Spur
Martin Hill
Notes
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}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C72189s1_Ant.Map_Cape_Hallet.jpg |accessdate=2024-03-10 |title=Cape Hallet |publisher=USGS: United States Geographic Board |ref= }}
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