Mount Frakes

Crary Mountains are a group of ice-covered volcanoes in Marie Byrd Land, . They consist of two or three shield volcanoes, named , and Mount Frakes, which developed during the course of the Miocene and Pliocene and last erupted about 30,000-40,000 years ago.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,675 metres
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Frakes, Mount”, “フレークス山”, “フレークズ山”, “フレイクス山”, and “マウント・フレイクズ”

Mount Frakes

Latitude
-76.80191° or 76° 48′ 7″ south
Longitude
-117.75324° or 117° 45′ 12″ west
Elevation
3,675 metres (12,057 feet)
Named after
Lawrence A. Frakes
Open location code
25M456XW+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1502259813
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
6633398
Wiki­data ID
Q1422562
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Mount Frakes” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Mont Frakes”
  • Cebuano: “Frakes”
  • Chinese: “弗雷克斯山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Frakes”
  • French: “mont Frakes”
  • French: “Mont Frakes”
  • German: “Mount Frakes”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Frakes”
  • Japanese: “フレイクズ山”
  • Ladin: “Mount Frakes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Frakes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Frakes”
  • Norwegian: “Mount Frakes”
  • Spanish: “Monte Frakes”
  • Swedish: “Frakes”
  • Swedish: “Mount Frakes”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрейкс”

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