Ford track
| Ford track | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ford Spur is a rock spur in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It marks the southwest end of the Haynes Table as well as the place of the confluence of the Keltie Glacier and Brandau Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after Charles Reginald Ford (1880-1972), a participant in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Ford track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ford Spur on geographic.org (English)