Mount Harkness () is a mountain, high, standing south of the
Organ Pipe Peaks
Organ Pipe Peaks is a row of aiguille type rock peaks, 7 nautical miles (13 km) long, standing just north of Mount Harkness and east of Scott Glacier in the Gothic Mountains. Discovered by the geological party of the Byrd Antarctic Expediti ...
and forming part of the east wall of
Scott Glacier, in the
Queen Maud Mountains of
Antarctica. It was discovered in December 1934 by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under
Quin Blackburn, and named at that time by Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd for
Bruce Harkness
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a ...
, a friend of
Richard S. Russell, Jr., a member of that party.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Gould Coast
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