The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain,

Mount Handsley The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount ...

, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including

Knobhead Knobhead () is a massive ice-free mountain, high, standing south of the western end of the Kukri Hills and overlooking Ferrar Glacier and Taylor Glacier at their point of apposition, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Na ...

Terra Cotta Mountain The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount F ...

New Mountain The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount F ...

Beacon Heights The Beacon Heights () are a small cluster of peaks between Beacon Valley and Arena Valley in Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land, rising to in West Beacon, and also including East Beacon and South Beacon. They were named by Hartley Ferrar, ...

, Pyramid Mountain,

Arena Valley Arena Valley () is an ice-free valley, between East Beacon and New Mountain, which opens to the south side of Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. It was given this descriptive name by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition The An ...

Kennar Valley The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount ...

Turnabout Valley The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount F ...

and the several valleys and ridges within Beacon Valley.

Exploration

The mountains were visited by British expeditions led by Robert Falcon Scott (1901–04 and 1910–13) and Ernest Shackleton (1907–09), who applied several names. Names were added in the years subsequent to the

International Geophysical Year The International Geophysical Year (IGY; french: Année géophysique internationale) was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific ...

, 1957–58, concurrent with research carried out by

New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme The New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) was a research program that operated a permanent research facility in Antarctica from 1959 to 1996. It was created by the Geophysics Division of New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Indust ...

and United States Antarctic Research Program field parties, and to fulfill the requirement for maps compiled from United States Navy aerial photographs, 1947–83. In 1977, the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountains after New Zealand Antarctic historian

Lester Bowden Quartermain Lester is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname and given name. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Given name * Lester Bangs (1948–1982), American music critic * Lester W. Bentley (1908–1972), American artist from Wiscon ...

(1895–1973).

List of mountains

Mount Benninghoff

Mount Benninghoff () is a mainly ice-free mountain (1,965 m) standing 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southeast of

. Named by

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 ...

in 1993 after

William S. Benninghoff William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

(1918–93), Professor of Botany, University of Michigan, 1957–88, retiring as Professor Emeritus of Botany; seasonal visits to Antarctica in 1968, 1976, 1977 and 1989; member, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group on Biology, 1968–87; member,

Polar Research Board Polar may refer to: Geography Polar may refer to: * Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates * Polar climate, the c ...

of the

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, 1966–86.

Mount Feather

Mount Feather () is a massive mountain, , with a broad flattish summit, standing at the southern extremity of the Quartermain Mountains. Named after Thomas A. Feather, Royal Navy, Boatswain on the Discovery during the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04), who accompanied Scott in his Western Journey to this area in 1903.

Finger Mountain

Finger Mountain () is an elongated mountain rising to on the northern side of

. So named by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) because a long tongue of dolerite between the sandstone strata has the appearance of a finger.

Pyramid Mountain

Pyramid Mountain () is a mountain resembling a pyramid, rising to between

and the mouth of Beacon Valley. The name seems first to appear on maps of the British Antarctic Expedition (R.F. Scott), 1910–13, but the mountain was almost certainly seen for the first time during Scott's first expedition, 1901–04.

Tabular Mountain

Tabular Mountain () is a broad, flat-topped mountain, , about north-northwest of Mount Feather. Descriptively named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.

Terra Cotta Mountain

Terra Cotta Mountain () is a mountain between

Windy Gully Windy Gully is an ice-filled gully between New Mountain and Terra Cotta Mountain, on the south side of Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ros ...

and

, on the southern side of Taylor Glacier. The descriptive name was applied by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.

Other features

Nadir Bluff The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount ...

Plumb Bob Point The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount F ...

Subtense Valley The Quartermain Mountains are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount ...

References

{{USGS Mountain ranges of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys