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[[File:Gothic-Mountains.jpg|thumb|The "Organ Pipes" in the Gothic Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains]] | [[File:Gothic-Mountains.jpg|thumb|The "Organ Pipes" in the Gothic Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains]] | ||
The '''Queen Maud Mountains''' (centered at approximately 85°45′S 152°7′W) is a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the [[Transantarctic Mountains]], lying between the [[Beardmore Glacier|Beardmore]] and [[Reedy Glacier]]s and including the area from the head of the [[Ross Ice Shelf]] to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. | The '''Queen Maud Mountains''' (centered at approximately 85°45′S 152°7′W) is a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the [[Transantarctic Mountains]], lying between the [[Beardmore Glacier|Beardmore]] and [[Reedy Glacier]]s and including the area from the head of the [[Ross Ice Shelf]] to the Antarctic Plateau in [[Antarctica]]. | ||
Despite the name, they are not located within [[Queen Maud Land]]. | Despite the name, they are not located within [[Queen Maud Land]]. | ||
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==Features== | ==Features== | ||
* [[Gothic Mountains]] | * [[Gothic Mountains]] | ||
* [[Robison Glacier]] | |||
* [[Beardmore Glacier]] | * [[Beardmore Glacier]] | ||
* [[La Gorce Mountains]] | * [[La Gorce Mountains]] | ||
* [[Mount Noville]] | * [[Mount Noville]] | ||
* [[Mount Bowlin]] | * [[Mount Bowlin]] | ||
* [[Mount Blackburn]] | |||
* [[Mount Andrews]] | |||
[[Category:Mountains]] | [[Category:Mountains]] | ||
[[Category:Geography of Westarctica]] | [[Category:Geography of Westarctica]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:33, 7 July 2023
The Queen Maud Mountains (centered at approximately 85°45′S 152°7′W) is 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.
Despite the name, they are not located within Queen Maud Land.
Discovery and name
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.
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 E. Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s.