Ford Nunatakker
| Ford Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 35 ′ S , 131 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Ford nunatakkers are a group of nunataks and low mountain peaks in Marie Byrd Land, western Antarctica . In the Wisconsin Range of the Horlick Mountains, they rise 11 km northwest of Murtaugh Peak over a length of 15 km from a network of mountain ridges sunk in the ice .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after Franklin E. Ford, construction mechanic for the winter crews at Byrd Station in 1961 and at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1965.
Web links
- Ford nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ford Nunataks on geographic.org (English)