The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the
Ford Ranges
The Ford Ranges () are a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, they were named by Byr ...
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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 ...
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Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
. They are about east 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 Eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less devel ...
in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in 1940 by the
US Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
and named for
Clark University
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in th ...
in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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Features
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Kelly Nunataks
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 ...
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Mesquite Valley
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Mount Atwood
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 ...
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Mount Burnham
Mount Burnham is one of the highest peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains. It is in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness. It is named for Frederick Russell Burnham the famous American military scout who taught Scoutcraft (then known as ''woodcraft'') to R ...
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Mount Ekblaw
Mount Ekblaw () is a mountain, high, standing east of Mount Van Valkenburg in the eastern part of the Clark Mountains in Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service in 1940 and ...
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Mount Jones
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 ...
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Mount Maglione
Mount Maglione () is a low mountain northeast of Mount Ekblaw in the Clark Mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and was named by the Advis ...
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Mount Van Valkenburg
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 ...
Further reading
* Sugden, David. (2003).
Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica'
* C.J. ADAMS, D. SEWARD and S.D. WEAVER,
Geochronology of Cretaceous granites and metasedimentary basement on Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica', Antarctic Science 7 (3): 265-277 (1995)
* C.J. Adams (1987),
Geochronology of granite terranes in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 30:1, 51–72, DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1987.10422193
* GEORGE A DOUMANI; ERNEST G EHLERS,
Petrography of Rocks from Mountains in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica', GSA Bulletin (1962) 73 (7): 877–882. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1962)73
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* International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 5th : 1987,
Geological Evolution of Antarctica', Cambridge, England
External links
Clark Mountains
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=123589 Clark Mountains
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/search_names_action.cfm?search_text=2719&feature_type_code=0&country_id=0&relic_options=include_relics&north=-45.0&south=-90.0&west=-180.0&east=180.0&search_near=&radius=0.5&gazetteers=SCAR Clark Mountains
References
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