The Ford Ranges () are a grouping of

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s standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land,

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. Discovered by the

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on December 5, 1929, they were named by Byrd for

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of the

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, who helped finance the expedition. __NOTOC__

Geological features

Ranges

The Ford Ranges include a number of mountain groupings and features: *

Allegheny Mountains (Antarctica) The Allegheny Mountains () are a small group of mountains west of the Clark Mountains in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. They were discovered on aerial exploration flights in 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition and subsequently mapped fr ...

Chester Mountains The Chester Mountains () are a group of mountains just north of the mouth of Crevasse Valley Glacier and north of Saunders Mountain in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. They were mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–35) and named ...

Clark Mountains The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They are about east of the Allegheny Mountains in Antarctica. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in ...

Denfeld Mountains The Denfeld Mountains () are a group of scattered mountains between Crevasse Valley Glacier and Arthur Glacier in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. The mountains were explored by the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions (1928–30 and 1933–35) and b ...

Fosdick Mountains The Fosdick Mountains () are an east–west trending mountain range with marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side of Balchen Glacier at the head of Block Bay, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were discover ...

* Haines Mountains *

Mackay Mountains The Mackay Mountains () are a prominent group of peaks south of the Allegheny Mountains The Allegheny Mountain Range (; also spelled Alleghany or Allegany), informally the Alleghenies, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Ea ...

* Phillips Mountains *

Sarnoff Mountains Sarnoff Mountains () is a range of mountains, 25 nautical miles (46 km) long and 4 to 8 nautical miles (15 km) wide separating the west-flowing Boyd and Arthur Glaciers in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Walgreen Peak forms the no ...

* Swanson Mountains

Mountains

Not a comprehensive list... * Mount Corey; Chester Mountains * Mount Darling; Allegheny Mountains *

Mount Iphigene Mount Iphigene (); a mountain just west of Ochs Glacier between Marujupu Peak and Birchall Peaks, in the Fosdick Mountains, Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It is composed of Fosdick Metamorphic Rocks migmatite and granite of Cretaceous ...

(); Fosdick Mountains, just west of

Ochs Glacier Ochs Glacier () is a glacier flowing to the head of Block Bay between Mount Iphigene and Mount Avers, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929, and named for Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the ...

between Marujupu Peak and

Birchall Peaks The Birchall Peaks () are a group of peaks west of Mount Iphigene, on the south side of Block Bay in Marie Byrd Land. They were discovered in 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and were named by Richard E. Byrd for Frederick T. Birchall, a m ...

. * Mackey Rock, Fosdick Mountains, is a large isolated rock eight nautical miles (15 km) southwest of the Mount Iphigene. *

Mount Luyendyk Mount Luyendyk is a summit in the western Fosdick Mountains of the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. It forms a prominent exposure in the northwestern Iphigene massif. The peak is named in recognition of Bruce P. Luyendyk, prof ...

; Fosdick Mountains * Mount Maglione; Clark Mountains * Marujupu Peak (); Fosdick Mountains. A conspicuous '' nunatak'' standing above the main flow of

, between Mount Iphigene and

Mount Ferranto Mount Ferranto is a mountain which forms the extreme southwest projection of the main massif of the Fosdick Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by a sledging party of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition which ...

. * Mount Peddie; Phillips Mountains *Mount Rea (); Sarnoff Mountains. A prominent

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standing between

Arthur Glacier Arthur Glacier () is a valley glacier in Antarctica. It is about long, and flows west to Sulzberger Ice Shelf between the Swanson Mountains on the north and Mount Rea and Mount Cooper on the south, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. It wa ...

and Boyd Glacier. * Mount Spencer; Allegheny Mountains *

Mount Stancliff Mount Stancliff () is a peak 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Saunders Mountain on the south side of Crevasse Valley Glacier, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by a sledging party of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition Ric ...

; Denfeld Mountains *

Mount Swartley Mount Swartley () is a peak 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of Mount Darling in the Allegheny Mountains of the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on aerial flights from West Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939– ...

; Allegheny Mountains * Mount Tolley; Allegheny Mountains *

Saunders Mountain Saunders Mountain () is a massive islandlike mountain rising to 975 m at the west end of Denfeld Mountains, Ford Ranges, on the Saunders Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on an aerial flight of December 5, 1929, a ...

; Denfeld Mountains

Other features

References

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