Mount Sinha
Mount Sinha is located in Antarctica
Mount Sinha
Mount Sinha
Highest point
Elevation990 m (3,250 ft)
Coordinates75°4′S 136°9′W / 75.067°S 136.150°W / -75.067; -136.150
Naming
EtymologyNamed for Akhouri Sinha
Defining authorityUnited States Geological Survey
Geography
ContinentAntarctica
RegionMarie Byrd Land
Parent rangeMcDonald Heights
Borders onErickson Bluffs
Topo mapUnited States Geological Survey 

Mount Sinha is a mountain (990 m) at the southeast extremity of Erickson Bluffs in the south part of McDonald Heights. It overlooks the lower Kirkpatrick Glacier from the north in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Akhouri Sinha, a member of the biological party that made population studies of seals, whales, and birds in the pack ice of the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas using USCGC Southwind and its two helicopters, 1971–72.

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