Ford Ranges
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 0 ′ S , 144 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Map sheet Guest Peninsula from 1969 (new edition 1988) with the northern part of the Ford Ranges on the eastern edge of the map |
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 Map sheet Boyd Glacier from 1969 with the southern part of the Ford Ranges |
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The Ford Ranges encompass mountain groups and mountain ranges east of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwestern section of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . These include, for example, the Fosdick Mountains , the Phillips Mountains and the Court Ridge .
They were discovered during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and named after the entrepreneur Edsel Ford (1893–1943), the then President of the Ford Motor Company , who helped finance the research trip.
Web links
- Ford Ranges in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ford Ranges on geographic.org (English)