Mount Boyd
| Mount Boyd | ||
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| height | 2960 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bush Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 179 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Boyd is a 2960 m high and pyramid-shaped mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 3 miles west of Mount Bennett in the Bush Mountains .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed him. The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997), as head of the team to cross the Ross Ice Shelf, took measurements of the mountain between 1957 and 1958. He named it after Walter W. Boyd Jr., the team's glaciologist .
Web links
- Mount Boyd in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Boyd on geographic.org (English)