Mount Hayes (Antarctica)
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Mount Hayes is a plateau-type mountain, , situated at the base of
Cole Peninsula Cole Peninsula () is a peninsula, 24 kilometers long in an east–west direction and 13 kilometers wide, lying between Cabinet Inlet and Mill Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, just east of Thuronyi Bluff and immediately north of the Antarctic ...
on the east coast of
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
,
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 ...
. It was charted in 1947 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
(FIDS), who named it for Rev.
Gordon Hayes Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gordon, ...
, Antarctic historian and author of ''Antarctica: A Treatise on the Southern Continent'' and ''The Conquest of the ''South Pole''.


See also

* McClary Ridge, crescent-shaped ridge 5 nautical miles (9 km) south-southeast of Mount Hayes


References

Hayes, Mount {{GrahamLand-geo-stub