Mount Ralph

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Mount Ralph
height 1054  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Ford Ranges
Coordinates 76 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 76 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Ralph (Antarctica)
Mount Ralph

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 .

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