Mount Ford
| Mount Ford | ||
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| height | 2580 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Ford is a prominent mountain of 2580 m in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises about 3 km north of Miller Peak and about 6.5 km west-southwest of Mount Ashworth in the Explorers Range in the Bowers Mountains .
The area was explored by participants in a campaign carried out from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , which named him after Malcolm Roding James Ford (1939-1996), the deputy surveyor of the northern group of the expedition, who was at Scott Base overwintered.
Web links
- Mount Ford in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ford on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 571 (English).