The Harold Byrd Mountains (), also known more simply as the Byrd Mountains, are a group of exposed mountains and
nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...
s which extend in an east–west direction between the lower part of
Leverett Glacier
Leverett Glacier in Antarctica is about long and wide, draining northward from the Watson Escarpment, between California Plateau and Stanford Plateau, and then trending west-northwest between the Tapley Mountains and Harold Byrd Mountains to ...
and the head of the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
in
Antarctica. They were discovered in December 1929 by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under
Laurence Gould, and named by Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd for
D. Harold Byrd David Harold "Dry Hole" Byrd (24 April 1900 – 14 September 1986) was a noted Texan producer of petroleum, and a co-founder of the Civil Air Patrol. Byrd's cousin, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, named Antarctica's Harold Byrd Mountains for him.
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, a cousin of his and a contributor towards the purchase of furs for the expedition.
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References
Mountain ranges of Marie Byrd Land
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