The Ford Ranges () are a grouping of

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s standing east of

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and Block Bay in the northwest part of

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. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, they were named by Byrd for Edsel Ford 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 f ...

* Chester Mountains * Clark Mountains * Denfeld Mountains *

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 ...

Haines Mountains The Haines Mountains are a range of ice-capped mountains trending northwest–southeast for about and forming the southwest wall of Hammond Glacier, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Exped ...

Mackay Mountains The Mackay Mountains () are a prominent group of peaks south of the Allegheny Mountains in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for Clarence Mackay Clarence ...

* Phillips Mountains * Sarnoff Mountains *

Swanson Mountains Swanson Mountains () is a mountain range 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) southeast of Saunders Mountain in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on aerial flights by the Byrd Antarctic Exp ...

Mountains

Not a comprehensive list... *

Mount Corey Mount Corey () is a mountain east of the Chester Mountains in the Ford Ranges of 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 ...

; Chester Mountains * Mount Darling; Allegheny Mountains * Mount Iphigene (); Fosdick Mountains, just west of Ochs Glacier between Marujupu Peak and Birchall Peaks. *

Mackey Rock Mackey Rock () is an isolated rock on the east side of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, southwest of Mount Iphigene, Fosdick Mountains, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U ...

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

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 ...

; Clark Mountains *

Marujupu Peak Marujupu Peak (); Fosdick Mountains, Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. A conspicuous ''nunatak'' standing above the main flow of Ochs Glacier, between Mount Iphigene and Mount Ferranto. It was discovered and so named by Byrd on the Byrd An ...

(); Fosdick Mountains. A conspicuous '' nunatak'' standing above the main flow of Ochs Glacier, between Mount Iphigene and Mount Ferranto. *

Mount Peddie Mount Peddie is an isolated mountain 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Webster Bluff and north of the Phillips Mountains, at the north edge of the Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped from surveys by United States Geological Survey (USGS) a ...

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

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standing between Arthur Glacier and

Boyd Glacier Boyd Glacier () is a heavily crevassed glacier flowing west-northwest for about to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf between Bailey Ridge and Mount Douglass in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered on aerial flights of the Byrd Antarctic ...

. *

Mount Spencer Mount Spencer () is a peak 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south 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) (1939–41) ...

; 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 in Nov ...

; Denfeld Mountains * Mount Swartley; Allegheny Mountains *

Mount Tolley Mount Tolley () is a peak, 1,030 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Mount Swartley in the Allegheny Mountains of the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. The peak was discovered on aerial flights from West Base of the United States Antarc ...

; Allegheny Mountains * Saunders Mountain; Denfeld Mountains

Other features

References

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