Mount Ralph
Mount Ralph | ||
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height | 1054 m | |
location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
Coordinates | 76 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Ralph is a 1,054 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges it looms between Mount Gilmour and Mount McCormick .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Ralph W. Smith, pilot in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Mount Ralph in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ralph on geographic.org (English)