Young Head () is a prominent rock headland, 350 meters high, marking the north side of the entrance to
Beaumont Bay
Beaumont Bay () is an ice-filled reentrant on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Young Head and Harris Point, into which Dickey Glacier flows. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Ad ...
on the west side of the
Ross Ice Shelf named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for CWO Victor Young,
U.S. Navy
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, member of the
Mobile Construction Battalion party at
Little America V
Little America was a series of Antarctic exploration bases from 1929 to 1958, located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales.
The coordinates are approximate.
Little America I
The first base in the series was established in January ...
, winter 1956.
Headlands of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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