The Hays Mountains () are a large group of mountains and peaks of the
Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, surmounting the divide between the lower portions of
Amundsen Glacier and
Scott Glacier and extending from the vicinity of
Mount Thorne on the northwest to
Mount Dietz
Mount Dietz () is a mountain in Antarctica, high, just north of the confluence of Souchez Glacier and Bartlett Glacier where it marks the southern limit of the Hays Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geologi ...
on the southeast. They were discovered by Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd on the
South Pole flight of November 28–29, 1929, and mapped in part by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological parties to this area in 1929 and 1934. They were named by Byrd for
Will H. Hays
William Harrison Hays Sr. (; November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was an American Republican politician.
As chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918–1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Ha ...
, former head of the
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.
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Key features
Mount Astor
Mount Astor is a prominent peak, high, standing north of Mount Bowser in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was discovered by Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight of November 1929 to the South ...
, a prominent peak in the range, was named by Byrd for Vincent Astor, of the Astor family, for his philanthropic contributions to the 1929 expedition.
Features
Geographical features include:
* Cappellari Glacier
Cappellari Glacier () is a glacier long in the Hays Mountains, flowing west from the northwest shoulder of Mount Vaughan to enter Amundsen Glacier just north of Mount Dort. It was first roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, a ...
* Cox Peaks
The Cox Peaks () are a series of peaks on a ridge, located southeast of Mount Crockett, extending eastward from the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains and terminating at Scott Glacier. They were mapped by the United States Geological Sur ...
* Dragons Lair Névé Dragons Lair Névé () is a névé of about in the Hays Mountains, bounded by Mount Griffith, Mount Pulitzer, Taylor Ridge, and Vaughan Glacier. The feature was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial phot ...
* Fission Wall Fission Wall () is a granite cliff, high, on the north face of Mount Griffith, Hays Mountains, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. The feature was climbed on November 16, 1987, by a United States Antarctic Research Program – Arizona Sta ...
* Forbidden Valley Forbidden Valley is a valley to the south of Citadel Peak in the Hays Mountains of Antarctica. The valley drains east-northeast from Mount Crockett to Scott Glacier and is partly covered by glacier and moraine. It was visited in December 1987 by a ...
* Heinous Peak Heinous Peak () is a prominent peak rising to about , north-northeast of Mount Crockett and southeast of Mount Vaughan in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. The peak was climbed on November 28, 1987, by four members of th ...
* Koerwitz Glacier
Koerwitz Glacier () is a low gradient glacier flowing northeast from Mount Griffith in the Hays Mountains of Antarctica to the Karo Hills. It was first seen and roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30. The glacier was named by t ...
* Mount Armstrong
* Mount Astor
Mount Astor is a prominent peak, high, standing north of Mount Bowser in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was discovered by Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight of November 1929 to the South ...
* Mount Borcik
Mount Borcik () is a prominent mountain, high, standing north-northwest of Mount Dietz in the southern Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1 ...
* Mount Colbert
Mount Colbert () is a mountain rising to , east of Mount Borcik and south-southwest of Mount Stump in the southeast Hays Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in association with Mount Stum ...
* Mount Crockett
Mount Crockett () is a prominent peak in Antarctica, high, standing east of Mount Astor in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was discovered by members of the geological party under Laurence Gould during the Byrd Antarctic Expedi ...
* Mount Dayton
Mount Dayton () is a mainly ice-free mountain, high, at the east side of Amundsen Glacier, standing west of Mount Goodale in the Hays Mountains. It was mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, and wa ...
* Mount Dietz
Mount Dietz () is a mountain in Antarctica, high, just north of the confluence of Souchez Glacier and Bartlett Glacier where it marks the southern limit of the Hays Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geologi ...
* Mount Gevers
Mount Gevers () is a rock peak, high, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, standing at the north side of Cappellari Glacier at the point where it enters Amundsen Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geological ...
* Mount Goodale
Mount Goodale () is a mountain with double summits, high, standing southeast of Mount Thorne in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party u ...
* Mount Griffith
Mount Griffith () is a mountain, standing north-northeast of Mount Vaughan in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was first observed and roughly mapped in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE) geol ...
* Mount Stump
Mount Stump () is a mostly ice-free mountain rising to 2,490 metres, located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north-northeast of Mount Colbert and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Mount Borcik in the southeast part of the Hays Mountains of ...
* Mount Thorne
* Mount Vaughan
Mount Vaughan is a prominent peak, 3,140 m, standing 4 miles (6 km) south-southwest of Mount Griffith on the ridge at the head of Vaughan Glacier, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. Named for Norman D. Vaughan, dog driver wi ...
* Mount Walshe
Mount Walshe () is a bare rock peak, 2,050 m, standing at the north side of Bartlett Glacier where it joins Scott Glacier, in southern Hays Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Na ...
* Scott Glacier
* Sledging Col
Sledging Col () is a col between Mount Griffith and a very low peak on its northeast side, in the Hays Mountains. The col provides a sledging route from Scott Glacier to the head of Koerwitz Glacier
Koerwitz Glacier () is a low gradient glacier ...
* Souchez Glacier
The Scott Glacier is a major glacier, long, that drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. The Scott Glacier is one of a series of major glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains, wit ...
* Vaughan Glacier
Vaughan Glacier () is a tributary glacier, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, draining eastward from Mount Vaughan to enter Scott Glacier just south of Taylor Ridge, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the United ...