The Adams Mountains () are a small but well defined group of
mountain
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s in
Queen Alexandra Range
The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica.
It is about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to ...
, bounded by the
Beardmore Beardmore can refer to:
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*Bob Beardmore, British rugby league footballer
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,
Berwick,
Moody and
Bingley Glacier
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of . It descends about from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen ...
s. Discovered by
British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named Adams Mountains for Lieutenant
Jameson B. Adams, second in command of the expedition. The
British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) restricted the name to Mount Adams for a high
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
in the group, but the original name and application are considered more apt and have been approved.
References
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Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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