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.- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 350 metres (1,148 feet)
- …is named after CWO Victor Young
- Description: headland in Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-81.48369° or 81° 29′ 1″ south
Longitude
161.40156° or 161° 24′ 6″ east
Open location code
2VC3GC82+GJ
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Young Head” goes by many names.
Young HeadCebuano
Young Head (punta)Cebuano
楊角Chinese
ראש יאנגHebrew
Young HeadNorwegian Nynorsk
Young HeadSwedish
Young Head (udde)Swedish
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