Phillips Mountains
| Phillips Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 16 ′ S , 145 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Guest Peninsula map from 1969 (reprinted 1988), Phillips Mountains in the northeastern quarter |
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The Phillips Mountains are a mountain range of the Ford Ranges on the northern flank of the Balchen Glacier and Block Bay in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica .
They were discovered during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and named after the entrepreneur Albanus Phillips Sr. (1871-1949), a sponsor of the Byrd expeditions.
Web links
- Phillips Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Phillips Mountains on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1212 (English).