Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales.[2] Despite the name, they are not located within Queen Maud Land.

Queen Maud Mountains
Photo of Mount Fridtjof Nansen in the Queen Maud Mountains taken by Roald Admundsen
Highest point
PeakMount Kaplan[1]
Elevation4,230 m (13,880 ft)
Coordinates84°33′00″S 175°19′00″W
Geography
Queen Maud Mountains
Location of Queen Maud mountains in Antarctica

Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton (1907–09) and Robert Falcon Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s.[2]

Features

Geographical features include:

Barton Mountains

Bush Mountains

Commonwealth Range

Dominion Range

Gothic Mountains

Grosvenor Mountains

Hays Mountains

Herbert Range

Hughes Range

La Gorce Mountains

Prince Olav Mountains

Quarles Range

Rawson Mountains

Supporters Range

Tapley Mountains

Other features

See also

References

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