Mount McCrory () is a
mountain east-southeast of
Mount Vance in the eastern part of the
Ickes Mountains,
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...
,
Antarctica. It was mapped by the
United States Geological Survey from surveys and
U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
for Captain
Eugene E. McCrory,
United States Coast Guard,
Commanding Officer
The commanding officer (CO) or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit. The commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually given wide latitu ...
of during
Operation Deep Freeze 1969 and 1970.
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References
Mountains of Marie Byrd Land
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