Mount Rutford

Mount Rutford
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height	4477 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 78 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Rutford is a 4477 m high and sharp ridge mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises as the highest point of the Craddock massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains immediately north of the Bugueño Pinnacle and 3.4 kilometers north of Mount Craddock .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after 2006 after the American geologist Robert Hoxie Rutford (1933-2019), who was part of the United States Antarctic Program on the University of Minnesota expedition to the Ellsworth Mountains (1962) led by John Campbell Craddock –1963), headed the polar program division of the National Science Foundation from 1975 to 1977 and later chaired the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

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