Mount Forde
Mount Forde | ||
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height | 1200 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 76 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Forde in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Forde on geographic.org (English)