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-'''[[Wilkes Land]]''' is a large district of land in eastern [[Antarctica]], formally claimed by Australia as part of the [[Australian Antarctic Territory]], though the validity of this claim has been placed for the period of the operation of the [[Antarctic Treaty]], to which Australia is a signatory. The region extends as a sector about 2600 km towards the [[South Pole]], with an estimated land area of 2,600,000 km², mostly glaciated.
+The '''[[Ford Ranges]]''' are a group of mountain ranges standing east of the [[Sulzberger Ice Shelf]] and [[Block Bay]] in the northwest part of [[Westarctica]]. Discovered by the [[Richard E. Byrd|Byrd Antarctic Expedition]] on 5 December 1929, and named by Byrd for Edsel Ford of the Ford Motor Company, who helped finance the expedition.
-Wilkes Land is named after Lieutenant Charles Wilkes (later a Rear Admiral), the American explorer who commanded the 1838–42 United States Exploring Expedition. The naming is in recognition of Wilkes' discovery of the continental margin over a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 miles) of coast, thus providing substantial proof that [[Antarctica]] is a continent. This definition of extent excludes the area east of 142°02' E, George V Land, which was sighted by Wilkes but has been shown by later expeditions to be further south than the positions originally assigned by him.
+The Ford Ranges include a number of mountain groupings and features, including Mount Rea, a prominent rock mountain with an imposing monolith on its west side called [[The Billboard]], standing between [[Arthur Glacier]] and [[Boyd Glacier]]. It was discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on the Eastern Flight of 5 December 1929, and named by Byrd for Mr. and Mrs. Rea, of Pittsburgh, PA, who were contributors to the expedition.
-<p><small>Author: Thomas Sully</small></p>
+<p><small>Photographer: Stephen Richard, University of Arizona </small></p>
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