Mount Cassidy

Mount Cassidy: Mount Cassidy (77°27′S 160°48′E / 77.45°S 160.8°E / -77.45; 160.8) is a mountain, 1,917 metres (6,290 ft) high, which forms a salient angle in the northeast part of Prentice Plateau, Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Rude Spur descends from the east side of the mountain. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after Dennis S. Cassidy, Curator of the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, from 1962–1991.

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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cassidy, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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