Bowers Mountains
| Bowers Mountains | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 10 ′ S , 163 ° 15 ′ E | |
 Map from 1967 with the northern part of the Bowers Mountains (east of it the Anare Mountains ) |
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 1967 map showing the main part of the Bowers Mountains |
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The Bowers Mountains are a mountain range with north-south orientation, which extends over a length of about 145 km and a width of about 55 km on the Oates coast of northern Victoria Land and the origin of the Rennick Glacier , the Canham Glacier , des Black Glacier and Lillie Glacier is.
The seaward flank was sighted in February 1911 by Lieutenant Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916), a crew member of the Terra Nova during the Antarctic expedition of the same name (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The area was mapped by the work of the United States Geological Survey from 1962 to 1963 and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1946 to 1947 and from 1960 to 1962. The original name Bowers Hills was changed from the survey to the current name after Measurements had shown that the mountains rise up to 2600 m . It is named after Henry Bowers (1883–1912), who died together with Scott and three other expedition members while returning from the geographic South Pole.
Web links
- Bowers Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowers Mountains on geographic.org (English)