Ford Rock
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 Topographic map of Ross Island with Ford Rock on the Hut Point Peninsula (bottom left) |
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| height | 251 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ford Rock is a striking and 251 m high rock formation on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 1.5 km northeast of Cone Hill in the center of the Hut Point Peninsula .
In the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , this rock and Cone Hill were named Cone Hill I and Cone Hill II . The former could be assigned to Cone Hill, the latter was given a new name at the suggestion of the New Zealand mountaineer and glaciologist Arnold John Heine. It is named after the New Zealand geodesist Malcolm Roding James Ford (1939–1996), who between 1962 and 1963 as part of the McMurdo Ice Shelf Project had erected a network of beacons for surveying work, including on the rock described here. The rock was already the location for such a beacon between 1955 and 1956, which was operated by the United States Hydrographic Office .
Web links
- Rockford in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ford Rock on geographic.org (English)