Mount Fulton
| Mount Fulton | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Fulton is a 900 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges belonging Denfeld Mountains it rises between Mount Passel and Mount Gilmour on.
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. It is named after the Canadian insurance company R. Arthur Fulton (1887–1962), through whose company the freighter Jacob Ruppert was insured during the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Mount Fulton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fulton on geographic.org (English)