Shepherd Dome

Shepherd Dome

Shepherd Dome (coord|74|52|S|99|33|W|) is a low dome-shaped mountain at the north side of Pine Island Glacier, standing 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Manthe in the south part of the Hudson Mountains. Mapped from air photos made by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Donald C. Shepherd, ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station, 1967.


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