Mount McClung

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Mount McClung
height 862  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Sarnoff Mountains , Ford Ranges
Coordinates 77 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount McClung (Antarctica)
Mount McClung

Mount McClung is a 862  m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises 3 km southeast of Mount González in the Sarnoff Mountains of the Ford Ranges .

He was discovered by participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Herbert C. McClung (* 1938) of the United States Navy , officer on duty at Byrd Station in 1965.

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