Mount Roth () is a rock peak (870 m) located 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of

Mount Justman Mount Justman () is a mountain high along the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, standing in the northern part of the Gabbro Hills, midway between Olliver Peak and Mount Roth. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names fo ...

in the northeast corner of

Gabbro Hills The Gabbro Hills () are a group of rugged ridges and coastal hills which border the Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf between Barrett Glacier and Gough Glacier and extend south to Ropebrake Pass. They were so named by the Southern Party of the New Zeala ...

, near the edge 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 ...

. Discovered and photographed by the

Byrd Antarctic Expedition Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...

(1928–30) and named for Benjamin Roth, mechanic and

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...

representative on that expedition.

References

* Mountains of the Ross Dependency Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub