The Columbia Mountains are a group of largely bare rock peaks, ridges and nunataks located near the east margin of the
Dyer Plateau
Dyer Plateau () is a broad ice-covered upland of north-central Palmer Land, bounded to the north by Fleming Glacier and Bingham Glacier, and to the south by the Gutenko Mountains. It is buttressed by Goettel Escarpment.
The plateau was first exp ...
, south-east of the
Eternity Range
The Eternity Range is a range of mountains long, rising to , and trending north–south approximately in the middle of the Antarctic Peninsula, in the Palmer Land region of Antarctica.
Geography
The Eternity Range is divided into three main mou ...
, in
Palmer Land
Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...
. They were mapped by the
U.S. Geological Survey
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in 1974, and named by 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 ...
after
Columbia University
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,
New York City
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, which for several seasons in the 1960s and 1970s sent geologists to study the structure of the
Scotia Ridge
The Scotia Arc is the island arc system forming the north, east and south border of the Scotia Sea. The northern border, the North Scotia Ridge, comprises (from west to east) Isla de los Estados at the tip of Tierra del Fuego, the Burdwood, Davis, ...
.
Peaks
Mount Brocoum is the dominant peak on the eastern ridge of the Columbia Mountains.
References
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Mountain ranges of Palmer Land
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