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Mount Perkins () is a mountain at the east end of the
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 discovere ...
in the Ford Ranges,
Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...
. It was discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on the Northeastern Flight of December 15–16, 1934, and named for Jack E. Perkins, who was a biologist at the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) West Base (1939–41) and the leader of a biological party which visited this area in December 1940.


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