Head Mountains
| Head Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Dearborn ( 2300 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 12 ′ S , 160 ° 5 ′ E | |
The Head Mountains are a mountain range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They rise south of the Gateway Nunatak at the head of the Mackay Glacier near the northern polar plateau . From west to east, these include Mount DeWitt , Mount Littlepage , Mount Dearborn and Coalbed Mountain .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2007 after the American planetologist James W. Head (* 1941) from Brown University , whose work in the Antarctic dry valleys from 2002 to 2006 led to Antarctica as an observation template for geographic objects on Mars to use.
Web links
- Head Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Head Mountains on geographic.org (English).
Topographic map Taylor Glacier from 1962 (new edition 1988): Mount DeWitt , Mount Littlepage , Mount Dearborn and the Robison Peak of Coalbed Mountain in the glaciated area northwest of the Antarctic dry valleys