Mount Forde

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Mount Forde
height 1200  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 76 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 76 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Forde (Antarctica)
Mount Forde

Mount Forde is a 1200  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 km northwest of Mount Marston at the head of the Hunt Glacier .

Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped and named him. It is named after Petty Officer Robert Forde (1875–1959), a member of the so-called Western Group on this research trip.

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