Mount Swan

Mount Swan
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height	870 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Ford Ranges
Coordinates	76 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 76 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W

Mount Swan is a 870 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges it rises 6 km south of the Gutenko Nunatakker .

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Paul Clifford Swan Jr. (1905-1967), aircraft pilot of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .

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