The Marshall Mountains () are a group of mountains overlooking
Beardmore Glacier 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 ...
, Antarctica. They are bounded on the north by
Berwick Glacier
Berwick Glacier () is a tributary glacier, long, flowing southeast between the Marshall Mountains and the Adams Mountains to enter Beardmore Glacier at Willey Point in Antarctica. It was named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, ...
, and on the south by
Swinford Glacier. The mountains were discovered by the South Polar Party of the
British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09), and named for Dr.
Eric Marshall
Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall (29 May 1879 – 26 February 1963) was a British Army doctor and Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907–09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton, ...
, surgeon and cartographer to the expedition, a member of the Polar Party.
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Mountains
* Blizzard Peak, at 3,375 metres (11,070 ft), the highest peak in the Marshall Mountains
*Kenyon Peaks
The Kenyon Peaks () are a small group of basalt peaks northwest of Storm Peak, in the Marshall Mountains of Antarctica. They were named by the Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public ...
, located northwest of Storm Peak, in the Marshall Mountains
* Mayeda Peak, at 2,890 metres (9,480 ft) high, in the Marshall Mountains
* Storm Peak, standing 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) north of Blizzard Peak in the Marshall Mountains
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Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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