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Mount Caywood () is a conspicuous mountain rising midway between Mount Chandler and
Mount Huffman Mount Huffman () is a prominent mountain northeast of Mount Abrams, in the Behrendt Mountains of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961 to 1967, and was na ...
, in the interior ice-filled valley of the Behrendt Mountains, Palmer Land. It was mapped by the
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from surveys and from
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air photos, 1961–67, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lindsay P. Caywood, Jr., geomagnetist at Camp Sky-Hi in this vicinity, summer 1961–62.


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* Mountains of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub