Mount Byrd

Mount Byrd
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height	810 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Ford Ranges
Coordinates	77 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 77 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W

Mount Byrd is a 810 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It looms in the Ford Ranges one mile north of the eastern end of Asman Ridge in the Sarnoff Mountains .

Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1970 by Richard E. Byrd Jr. (1920-1988), the son of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , who in assignments a large number of names of his father to geographic features in Antarctica helped .

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