The Longstaff Peaks () are a series of high peaks standing just west of

Davidson Glacier The Davidson Glacier is a large glacier, valley glacier near Haines, Alaska, Haines, Alaska that finds its source in the Chilkat Range. History The Davidson Glacier was named in 1867 for George Davidson (geographer), George Davidson. Its Indian n ...

in the north-central part of the

Holland Range The Holland Range () is a rugged coastal mountain range in Antarctica, about long, lying just west of the Ross Ice Shelf and extending from Robb Glacier to Lennox-King Glacier. It was named by the Ross Sea Committee for Sir Sidney Holland, who as ...

in Antarctica. They were discovered by the

British National Antarctic Expedition The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–184 ...

(1901–04), and named ''Mount Longstaff'' for Llewellyn Wood Longstaff, a principal contributor to the expedition. The descriptive term was amended by the

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board p ...

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Mountains of the Ross Dependency Shackleton Coast {{ShackletonCoast-geo-stub