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| Hercules from VXE-6 unloads FORCE team, Marie Byrd Land,
Antarctica, December 1989. Photo © B. Luyendyk
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Our work focused in on the Fosdick, Phillips and Chester
Mountains in the northern Ford Ranges. Earlier geological parties had visited
some locations we worked in before but many had not. We were the first to stand
on many of the outcrops.
Our main focus of work was in the metamorphic massif of the
Fosdick Mountains named after Admiral Byrd’s good friend Raymond Fosdick. Sledge
parties from Byrd’s expeditions reached these mountains in 1934 and 1941. Geological
parties explored the surrounding mountains in 1966 through 1969. New Zealand
geologists visited various portions of western MBL in 1978-79 and 1987-88. The
western regions of MBL including the Ford Ranges are vast, comparable to
southern California in area but not climate! Because of the size of the region the
earlier explorations were of a reconnaissance nature.
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