Mackay Mountains
| Mackay Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Monson ( 1155 m ) | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 30 ′ S , 143 ° 20 ′ W | |
The Mackay Mountains are a distinctive group of mountains in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges they loom 16 km south of the Allegheny Mountains .
The mountains were discovered in 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named it after the US telecommunications entrepreneur Clarence Hungerford Mackay (1874–1938), a sponsor of the research trip .
Web links
- Mackay Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mackay Mountains on geographic.org (English)