Mount Vaughan is a prominent

peak Peak or The Peak may refer to: Basic meanings Geology * Mountain peak ** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics * Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion * Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...

, 3,140 m, standing 4 miles (6 km) south-southwest of

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) ge ...

on the ridge at the head of Vaughan Glacier, in the

Hays Mountains 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 ...

of the

Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarcti ...

. Named for

Norman D. Vaughan Colonel Norman Dane Vaughan (December 19, 1905 – December 23, 2005) was an American dogsled driver and explorer whose first claim to fame was participating in Admiral Byrd's first expedition to the South Pole. He also ran dog teams in a prof ...

, dog driver with 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 ...

geological party under Laurence M. Gould which explored the mountains in this vicinity in December 1929. The map resulting from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, applied the name Mount Vaughan to the southern portion of Mount Goodale, but the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) has modified the original naming to apply to this larger peak which lies 15 miles (24 km) southeastward. Vaughan made the first step on the mountain in 1994 December 16, three days before his 89th birthday.

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* http://www.normanvaughan.com/mountain.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan Mountains of the Ross Dependency Queen Maud Mountains Amundsen Coast