Swanson Mountains
| Swanson Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 0 ′ S , 145 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Guest Peninsula map sheet from 1969 (reprinted 1988), Swanson Mountains in the east of the southern edge of the map |
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 Boyd Glacier map sheet from 1969, Swanson Mountains east of center of the northern edge of the map |
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The Swanson Mountains are a 13 km long mountain range in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges, they tower 10 km southeast of Saunders Mountain .
They were discovered in 1934 during overflights during the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . He named it after the US politician Claude A. Swanson (1862-1939), Minister of the Navy under US President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1939.
Web links
- Swanson Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swanson Mountains on geographic.org (English)