Fosdick Mountains

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Fosdick Mountains
The massif of Mount Iphigene (foreground) in the western part of the Fosdick Mountains

The massif of Mount Iphigene (foreground) in the western part of the Fosdick Mountains

location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
part of Ford Ranges
Fosdick Mountains (Antarctica)
Fosdick Mountains
Coordinates 76 ° 32 ′  S , 144 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 76 ° 32 ′  S , 144 ° 45 ′  W
Guest Peninsula map sheet from 1969 (reprinted 1988), Fosdick Mountains in the middle of the eastern edge of the map

Guest Peninsula map sheet from 1969 (reprinted 1988), Fosdick Mountains in the middle of the eastern edge of the map

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The Fosdick Mountains are a mountain range with pronounced sharp-pointed peaks in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It extends in an east-west direction along the southern flank of the Balchen Glacier in the Ford Ranges to Block Bay .

They were discovered in 1929 during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and named after Raymond B. Fosdick (1883–1972), the then President of the Rockefeller Foundation .

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