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Phillips Mountains

Coordinates: 76°16′S 145°0′W / 76.267°S 145.000°W / -76.267; -145.000
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Phillips Mountains (76°16′S 145°0′W / 76.267°S 145.000°W / -76.267; -145.000) is a range of mountains on the north side of Balchen Glacier and Block Bay in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30) and named by Byrd for Albanus Phillips, Sr., a manufacturer in Cambridge, Maryland, United States, and patron of the Byrd expeditions.

Further reading

• Donna Whitney, Christian Teyssier, Christine S. Siddoway, Gneiss Domes in Orogeny, P 271
• Bruce Luyendy, Stan Cisowski, Christine Smith, Steve Richard, David Kimbrough, Paleomagnetic study of the northern Ford Ranges, western Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Motion between West and East Antarctica, https://doi.org/10.1029/95TC02524
• S. M. Richard, C. H. Smith, D. L. Kimbrough, Paul G Fitzgerald, B. P. Luyendyk, M. O. McWilliams, Cooling history of the northern Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Tectonics, 13(4), 837–857.
• Antarctic Journal of the United States, Volume 26, P 37 - 38

References

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