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'''Mount Flint''' (75°44′S 129°06′W) is a prominent rounded and mainly snow-covered mountain, 2,695 meters (8,842 ft), standing 16 km (10 mi) NW of [[Mount Petras]]. It is located in the [[McCuddin Mountains]]

==Discovery and name==
The mountain was observed from aircraft of the U.S. [[Antarctic]] Service in Flight G, Dec. 15, 1940, and was briefly referred to as "Mount Gray". [[Asher Peak]] is a peak in the south west portion of the mountain. It was mapped in detail by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 1959-65.

Mount Flint was named by US-ACAN for Robert B. Flint, Jr., a U.S. Antarctic Research Program who worked as a scientist on high latitude geophysical and geomagnetic phenomena. Flint wintered over at [[Byrd Station]] in 1964, at Plateau Station, where he was scientific leader, in 1966, and at Vostok Station where he was U.S. Exchange Scientist in 1974.

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