The Billboard
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Billboard ( English for The billboard is) a hulking monolith of granite in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises with a flank height of 300 m in the Ford Ranges immediately west of Mount Rea between the Arthur and Boyd glaciers .
It was discovered in November 1934 by a sled team led by the US geographer Paul Siple on the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It got its descriptive name based on its appearance.
Web links
- The billboard in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Billboard on geographic.org (English)