Mount Blades
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Mount Blades is a mountain
3 nautical miles (6 km) west-northwest of Bailey Ridge
, on the north side of Boyd Glacier
in the Ford Ranges
, Marie Byrd Land
. Discovered and mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939–41). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for Commander J.L. Blades, U.S. Navy, in charge of Antarctic support activities at McMurdo Station
during the winter of 1965.
Mountain
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3 nautical miles (6 km) west-northwest of Bailey Ridge
Bailey Ridge
Bailey Ridge is a serrate ridge long, standing between Mount Blades and Fleming Peaks in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered on aerial flights of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named by the United States Antarctic Service for Clay W. Bailey, a member of both...
, on the north side of Boyd Glacier
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, Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered on aerial flights of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for Vernon D. Boyd,...
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...
, 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...
. Discovered and mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939–41). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
(US-ACAN) for Commander J.L. Blades, U.S. Navy, in charge of Antarctic support activities at McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...
during the winter of 1965.