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Mount Nelson (Antarctica)
The Hays Mountains () are a large group of mountains and peaks of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, surmounting the divide between the lower portions of Amundsen Glacier and Scott Glacier and extending from the vicinity of Mount Thorne on the northwest to Mount Dietz on the southeast. They were discovered by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on the South Pole flight of November 28–29, 1929, and mapped in part by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological parties to this area in 1929 and 1934. They were named by Byrd for Will H. Hays, former head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Key features Mount Astor, a prominent peak in the range, was named by Byrd for Vincent Astor, of the Astor family, for his philanthropic contributions to the 1929 expedition. Features Geographical features include: * Cappellari Glacier * Cox Peaks * Dragons Lair Névé * Fission Wall * Forbidden Valley * Heinous Peak * Koerwitz Glacier * Mount Armstrong * Mount Astor * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales. Despite the name, they are not located within Queen Maud Land. Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton (1907–09) and Robert Falcon Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s. Featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Valley
Forbidden Valley is a valley to the south of Citadel Peak in the Hays Mountains of Antarctica. The valley drains east-northeast from Mount Crockett to Scott Glacier and is partly covered by glacier and moraine. It was visited in December 1987 by a United States Antarctic Research Program – Arizona State University geological party led by Edmund Stump Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector". Persons named Edmund include: People Kings and .... The mouth of the valley is blocked by a moraine which denies easy access, hence the name. References Valleys of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{RossDependency-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Walshe
Mount Walshe () is a bare rock peak, 2,050 m, standing at the north side of Bartlett Glacier where it joins Scott Glacier, in southern Hays Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ... (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Walshe, Jr., U.S. Navy, an officer aboard the Arneb in Antarctica in the 1957–58 and 1958–59 seasons; on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, during 1966–67. Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Vaughan
Mount Vaughan is a prominent peak, 3,140 m, standing 4 miles (6 km) south-southwest of Mount Griffith on the ridge at the head of Vaughan Glacier, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. Named for Norman D. Vaughan, dog driver with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence M. Gould which explored the mountains in this vicinity in December 1929. The map resulting from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, applied the name Mount Vaughan to the southern portion of Mount Goodale, but the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ... (US-ACAN) has modified the original naming to apply to this larger peak which lies 15 miles (24 km) southeastward. Vaughan made the first step on the mountain in 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Stump
Mount Stump () is a mostly ice-free mountain rising to 2,490 metres, located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north-northeast of Mount Colbert and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Mount Borcik in the southeast part of the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs from 1960–64. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after geologist Edmund Stump from Arizona State University. Stump was also a geological investigator for the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) at the following places: lower Shackleton Glacier (1970–71), Duncan Mountains (1974–75), Leverett Glacier (1977–78), Scott Glacier and Byrd Glacier (1978–79), and at the La Gorce Mountains (1980–81). He was also the chief scientist of the International Northern Victoria Land Project (1981–82) and did additional investigations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Griffith
Mount Griffith () is a mountain, standing north-northeast of Mount Vaughan in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was first observed and roughly mapped in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE) geological party under Laurence Gould. It was remapped in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Raymond Griffith of Twentieth Century-Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disn ... Pictures, who assisted in assembling motion-picture records of the expedition. References Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Goodale
Mount Goodale () is a mountain with double summits, high, standing southeast of Mount Thorne in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould, and named by Richard E. Byrd after Edward E. Goodale, a member of that party. From 1959 to 1968 Goodale served as United States Antarctic Research Program Representative in Christchurch, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ..., and facilitated the passage of thousands of researchers to Antarctica and return. References External links The Papers of Edward E. Goodaleat Dartmouth College Library Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Gevers
Mount Gevers () is a rock peak, high, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, standing at the north side of Cappellari Glacier at the point where it enters Amundsen Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for T.W. Gevers of the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), a geologist at McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south 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 Unit ... in 1964–65. References Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Dayton
Mount Dayton () is a mainly ice-free mountain, high, at the east side of Amundsen Glacier, standing west of Mount Goodale in the Hays Mountains. It was mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Paul K. Dayton III, a biologist with the McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south 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 Unit ... winter party of 1964. References Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Crockett
Mount Crockett () is a prominent peak in Antarctica, high, standing east of Mount Astor in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was discovered by members of the geological party under Laurence Gould during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, and named by Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ... for Frederick E. Crockett, a member of that party. The application of this name has been shifted in accord with the position assigned on the maps resulting from the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1933–35. References Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Colbert
Mount Colbert () is a mountain rising to , east of Mount Borcik and south-southwest of Mount Stump in the southeast Hays Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in association with Mount Stump after Philip V. Colbert, geologist, Arizona State University, logistic coordinator and field associate with Edmund Stump on six United States Antarctic Research Program expeditions to the Transantarctic Mountains The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted (primarily sedimentary) rock in Antarctica which extend, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land. ..., 1970–71 through 1981–82, including the area of this mountain. References Mountains of the Ross Dependency Queen Maud Mountains Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Borcik
Mount Borcik () is a prominent mountain, high, standing north-northwest of Mount Dietz in the southern Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Andrew J. Borcik, a pilot on photographic flights during U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze, 1965–67. References Mountains of the Ross Dependency Amundsen Coast {{Ross-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
