Adams Mountains

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Adams Mountains
Highest peak Mount Adams ( 3596  m )
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
part of Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Adams Mountains (Antarctica)
Adams Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 26 '  S , 166 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 84 ° 26 '  S , 166 ° 45'  E
Map from 1965 with the central part of the Queen Alexandra chain in the northwest; Adams Mountains near the center of the western edge of the map

Map from 1965 with the central part of the Queen Alexandra chain in the northwest; Adams Mountains near the center of the western edge of the map

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The Adams Mountains are a group of peaks in the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains , the highest point of which is Mount Adams with a height of 3596  m .

Mount Adams and the Adams Mountains are listed by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in the naming of geographical objects in Antarctica under the common ID  69. They are surrounded by the Beardmore , Berwick , Moody and Bingley glaciers . The summit group was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and named after one of its discoverers, the deputy expedition leader Jameson Adams (1880–1962). Mount Adams was later named by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1911-1913) under Robert Falcon Scott .

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