Mount Atkinson
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Mount Atkinson () is a prominent mountain rising to about 3,300 m, 3.5 miles (6 km) west-southwest of Mount Craddock in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1957-60. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Richard C. Atkinson, Director, National Science Foundation, 1977-80.
This article incorporates text from Mount Atkinson, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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