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==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||
Mount Avers was discovered in December 1929 by the [[Byrd Antarctic Expedition]] and named in honor of Henry G. Avers, who served as the chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that [[Richard E. Byrd]] had reached the North Pole by airplane in 1926 and the [[South Pole]] in 1929. | Mount Avers was discovered in December 1929 by the [[Byrd Antarctic Expedition]] and named in honor of Henry G. Avers, who served as the chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that [[Richard E. Byrd]] had reached the North Pole by airplane in 1926 and the [[South Pole]] in 1929. | ||
==Peerage title== | |||
On 20 April 2020, Andrew Lauterbach, the Baronet of Monkmore, was granted the additional [[Peerage of Westarctica|peerage title]] Baron of Avers in recognition of his support of Westarctica. | |||
[[Category: Mountains]] | [[Category: Mountains]] | ||