Mount Fordell

80°19′S 82°9′W / 80.317°S 82.150°W / -80.317; -82.150

Mount Fordell is a 1,670 metres (5,480 ft) high mountain, marking the south end of the Marble Hills in the Heritage Range, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant William D. Fordell, U.S. Navy, a co-pilot of LC-47 aircraft, who died in a plane crash on the Ross Ice Shelf on February 2, 1966.

See also

• Mountains in Antarctica

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Fordell, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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