Young Head
Young Head is a prominent rock headland, 350 meters high, marking the north side of the entrance to Beaumont Bay on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for CWO Victor Young, U.S. Navy, member of the Mobile Construction Battalion party at Little America V, winter 1956.Young Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-81.48369° or 81° 29′ 1″ south
Longitude
161.40156° or 161° 24′ 6″ east
Elevation
350 metres (1,148 feet)
Named after
CWO Victor Young
Open location code
2VC3GC82+GJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Young Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Young Head (punta)”
- Cebuano: “Young Head”
- Chinese: “楊角”
- German: “Young Head”
- Hebrew: “ראש יאנג”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Young Head”
- Swedish: “Young Head (udde)”
- Swedish: “Young Head”
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