The Bush Mountains is a series of rugged elevations at the heads of the
Ramsey
Ramsey may refer to:
Geography British Isles
* Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, a small market town in England
* Ramsey, Essex, a village near Harwich, England
** Ramsey and Parkeston, a civil parish formerly called just "Ramsey"
* Ramsey, Isle of Man, t ...
and
Kosco glaciers in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
.
The Bush Mountains extend from
Mount Weir in the west to
Anderson Heights Anderson Heights () form a roughly rectangular snow-covered tableland, long and wide, with an elevation somewhat over , located between Mount Bennett and Mount Butters in the east part of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and ...
overlooking
Shackleton Glacier
Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctica, Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km (5 to 10 mi) wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to e ...
in the east. They were photographed at a distance by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
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 ...
(Byrd AE) on several flights to the
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 P ...
in November 1929. The mountains were further defined from aerial photographs taken by the
USAS (1939–41), US Navy
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
(1946–47), and USN
Operation Deep Freeze
Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...
(1956–63).
The Bush Mountains were named by
US-SCAN, on the recommendation of Rear Admiral
Byrd Byrd commonly refers to:
* William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance
* Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer
Byrd or Byrds may also refer to:
Other people
* Byrd (surname), includin ...
, after James I. Bush,
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
financier and patron of the Byrd AE, 1928–30.
Features
Geographical features include:
* Anderson Heights Anderson Heights () form a roughly rectangular snow-covered tableland, long and wide, with an elevation somewhat over , located between Mount Bennett and Mount Butters in the east part of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and ...
* Kosco Glacier
Kosco Glacier () is a glacier about long, flowing from the Anderson Heights vicinity of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica northward to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Wilson Portal and Mount Speed. It was discovered by the United States Antarct ...
* McIntyre Promontory
* Mincey Glacier
Mincey Glacier () is a glacier, long, draining the southern slopes of the Anderson Heights in the Bush Mountains of Antarctica and flowing southeast to enter Shackleton Glacier at Thanksgiving Point. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Na ...
* Mount Boyd
* Mount Cromie
* Ramsey Glacier Ramsey Glacier () is a glacier about 45 nautical miles (80 km) long, originating in the Bush Mountains near the edge of the polar plateau and flowing north to the Ross Ice Shelf eastward of Den Hartog Peak. Discovered by the United States Ant ...