Mount Woodward (Marie Byrd Land)
| Mount Woodward | ||
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| height | 252 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Woodward is a 252 m high mountain with a wide double peak in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises in the Ford Ranges 13 km west-northwest of Mount Douglass between the Hammond Glacier and the Boyd Glacier .
The mountain was discovered during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It is named after Donald Woodward (1893–1958), son of the entrepreneur orator Francis Woodward and sponsor of the research trip.
Web links
- Mount Woodward in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Woodward on geographic.org (English)