Ford Peak

Ford Peak (75°43′S 160°27′E) is a rock peak, 1,830 metres (6,000 ft) high, standing 6.5 nautical miles (12 km) west of Mount Billing in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, for M.R.J. Ford, assistant surveyor with that party, who had wintered over at Scott Base in 1962.[1]

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