The Tyndall Mountains () are a group of mountains close south of Avsyuk Glacier in central Arrowsmith Peninsula,

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. Photographed from the air by

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, 1956–57. Mapped by

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(FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1948–59. Named by

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(UK-APC) for

John Tyndall John Tyndall FRS (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the p ...

(1820–93), Irish mountaineer and pioneer glaciologist, author of many works on glaciers and the physical properties of ice.

Peaks

Pryor Peak sits on the west side of the range, on the edge of Giants Cirque, a large

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which opens to the southwest to Vallot Glacier. The cirque was named by the

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in 1983 following

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geological work in the area. The peak was named by UK-APC after Commander John S. N. Pryor,

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. Richardson Peak, rising to about 600 m, sits on the east side of Vallot Glacier. It was named by UK-APC after Hilda Richardson,

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. Both peaks were photographed from the air by the

Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...

(FIDASE) in 1957 and visited by

(BAS) geologists, 1980–81.

References

Mountain ranges of Graham Land Loubet Coast {{LoubetCoast-geo-stub