Mount Drewry () is a prominent blocklike mountain on the west side of
Beardmore Glacier, rising to between
Bingley Glacier and
Cherry Icefall in the
Queen Alexandra Range
The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica.
It is about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to ...
. It was discovered and roughly mapped by the Southern Journey Party of the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, led by
Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of ...
, which was abreast of this mountain on 13 December 1908. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1986 after
David J. Drewry, a British glaciologist who was a leader of the
Scott Polar Research Institute –
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...
–
Technical University of Denmark
The Technical University of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's fir ...
airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967–79, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, 1984–87, and Director of the
British Antarctic Survey, from 1987.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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