Spaulding Rocks
| Spaulding Rocks | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 0 ′ S , 143 ° 16 ′ W | |
The Spaulding Rocks are a somewhat isolated group of ledges in Marie-Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges they rise about 18 km northeast of Mount Warner .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped them. The United States Geological Survey mapped it again based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named this formation in 1970 after Howard R. Spaulding, a construction worker at Byrd Station in 1966 .
Web links
- Spaulding Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spaulding Rocks on geographic.org (English)