La Gorce Mountains
| La Gorce Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 45 ′ S , 146 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Map from 1988, La Gorce Mountains in the Southwest Quarter |
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The La Gorce Mountains are a group of mountains in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains they tower over a length of 32 km in the upper section of the Scott Glacier between the mouths of the Robison Glacier and the Klein Glacier .
They were discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named it after John Oliver La Gorce (1880-1959), then Vice-President of the National Geographic Society .
Web links
- La Gorce Mountains in Names Geographic Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- La Gorce Mountains on geographic.org (English)