Mount Shinn
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Mount Shinn () is a mountain over 4,800 m, standing 4 miles (6 km) southeast of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered on IGY reconnaissance flights in January 1958, and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Conrad S. (Gus) Shinn, U.S. Navy, pilot on some of these flights. Shinn was pilot of the Navy R4D aircraft carrying Admiral Dufek which, on October 31, 1956, made the first plane landing at the geographic South Pole.
This article incorporates text from Mount Shinn, 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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