Haines Mountains
| Haines Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 34 ′ S , 146 ° 20 ′ W | |
 Boyd Glacier map sheet from 1969, Haines Mountains southwest of center of the map |
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The Haines Mountains are a range of icy mountains in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges they extend for around 40 km in a north-west-south-east orientation and limit the Hammond Glacier to the south-west.
They were discovered during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . They are named after William C. Haines (1887–1956), meteorologist on this and Byrd's first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930).
Web links
- Haines Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haines Mountains on geographic.org (English)