Harold Byrd Mountains
| Harold Byrd Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 26 ′ S , 146 ° 30 ′ W | |
 1966 map, Harold Byrd Mountains on western half of the map |
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The Harold Byrd Mountains are a group of exposed mountains and nunatakkers in the west Antarctic Marie Byrd Land , which are distributed in an east-west orientation between the lower section of the Leverett Glacier and the southern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
They were discovered in December 1929 by the team around the geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . They are named after Byrd's cousin David Harold Byrd (1900–1986), a Texan oil entrepreneur who made a financial contribution to the purchase of furs to equip the research trip.
Web links
- Harold Byrd Mountains in Names Geographic Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harold Byrd Mountains on geographic.org (English)