Mount Strybing

Mount Strybing: Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

Mount Strybing (78°41′S 85°4′W / 78.683°S 85.067°W / -78.683; -85.067) is a mountain (3,200 m) standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Mount Craddock in the south part of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It is linked to Mount Craddock by Karnare Col. First mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for M/Sgt. Henry Strybing, United States Marine Corps (USMC), navigator on reconnaissance flights of R4D aircraft to this region in the 1957-58 season.

Maps

Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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