Mount Passel
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Mount Passel is a ridgelike mountain
4 nautical miles (7 km) north of the Swanson Mountains
in the Ford Ranges
, Marie Byrd Land
. Discovered in December 1940 by members of a geological party of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) which visited this area, and named for Charles F. Passel, geologist and radio operator of that party.
Mountain
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4 nautical miles (7 km) north of the Swanson Mountains
Swanson Mountains
Swanson Mountains is a mountain range 8 nautical miles long, standing 6 nautical miles southeast of Saunders Mountain in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on aerial flights by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934 and named for the Hon. Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the...
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 in December 1940 by members of a geological party of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) which visited this area, and named for Charles F. Passel, geologist and radio operator of that party.