Darwin Mountains

The Darwin Mountains is a group of mountains between the Darwin and Hatherton glaciers in Antarctica. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

Features

Further reading

• Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water, PP 297 - 300
• Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, John L. Isbell, Editors, Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space, PP 59 - 69
• WARWICK F. VINCENT, CLIVE HOWARD-WILLIAMS, Nitrate-rich inland waters of the Ross Ice Shelf region, Antarctica, Antarctic Science 6 (3): 339-346 (1994), P 340

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