Mount Atwood
| Mount Atwood | ||
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| height | 1180 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Clark Mountains in the Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Atwood is a 1180 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises on the western edge of the Clark Mountains in the Ford Ranges .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered it in 1940 during flights from their western base and named it after the American geologists and geographers WW Atwood Sr. (1872–1949) and WW Atwood Jr. (1906–1949) who jointly conducted glaciological studies at Clark University .
Web links
- Mount Atwood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Atwood on geographic.org (English)