Court Ridge
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Court Ridge is a low, ice-drowned ridge extending to Sulzberger Ice Shelf from the northwestern extremity of the Haines Mountains
, in the Ford Ranges
of Marie Byrd Land
. It was discovered by members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on the Northeast Flight of December 15–16, 1934, and named for Arnold Court, a meteorologist at the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41).
Haines Mountains
The Haines Mountains is a range of ice-capped mountains trending NW-SE for about and forming the SW wall of Hammond Glacier, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for William C. Haines, meteorologist of the Byrd AE ....
, in the Ford Ranges
Ford Ranges
The Ford Ranges is a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica...
of Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...
. It was discovered by members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on the Northeast Flight of December 15–16, 1934, and named for Arnold Court, a meteorologist at the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41).