Mount Getz
| Mount Getz | ||
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| height | 1120 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Getz is a 1120 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the southern part of the Fosdick Mountains in the Ford Ranges it rises 8 km east-southeast of Mount Ferranto .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. The expedition leader Richard Evelyn Byrd named him after the American entrepreneur George Fulmer Getz Jr. (1908-1992), who like his father George Fulmer Getz (1865-1938), after whom the Getz Ice Shelf is named, one of the sponsors of the Byrd's research trips count.
Web links
- Mount Getz in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Getz on geographic.org (English)