Grosvenor Mountains
| Grosvenor Mountains | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 40 ′ S , 175 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Grosvenor Mountains are a range of widely dispersed mountain peaks and nunatakkers in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They extend on the edge of the central polar plateau from Mount Pratt in the north to Mount Raymond in the south and from the Otway massif in the northwest to the Larkman Nunatak in the southeast.
They were discovered by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd during the flight to the South Pole on November 29, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930). Some of the peaks were discovered and named by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton during the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), but incorrectly assigned to the Dominion Range . The Grosvenor Mountains are named after Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966), patron of the Byrd expedition and then president of the National Geographic Society .
Web links
- Grosvenor Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grosvenor Mountains on geographic.org (English)