Mount Ferranto
| Mount Ferranto | ||
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| height | 803 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Ferranto is a 803 m high mountain in the Ford Ranges in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It forms the extreme southwestern foothills of the main massif of the Fosdick Mountains .
He was discovered during a march undertaken between November and December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) under the direction of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It is named after Felix Ferranto (1911–2002), radio operator and tractor operator of the United States Antarctic Service from 1939 to 1941.
Web links
- Mount Ferranto in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ferranto on geographic.org (English)