Mount Zinkovich

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Mount Zinkovich is a sharp, 2,280-metre-high mountain in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. It sits about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Mount Frost on the north side of Silk Glacier. It lies on a ridge that runs from Pyramid Mountain in the south, through Mount Coley and Mount Frost, and continues north past Mount Wharton to Turk Peak. The Silk Glacier drains from this ridge just south of Mount Zinkovich and flows east to join Nursery Glacier; the Jorda Glacier drains from the ridge between Pyramid Mountain and Mount Coley and also flows east to Nursery Glacier. West of Zinkovich is the Byrd Névé, from which the Wallabies Nunataks and All-Blacks Nunataks rise. Mount Zinkovich was named by US-ACAN for Lt. Col. Michael Zinkovich, USAF, who commanded the 1710th Aerial Port Squadron, which provided airlift support between New Zealand and Antarctica and from McMurdo Sound inland to Byrd, Eights, and South Pole Stations during Operation Deep Freeze in 1962.