Mount Drewry

Mount Drewry
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height	2910 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 84 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Hochtour glaciated

Mount Drewry is a 2910 m high and prominent mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains, it looms between the Bingley Glacier and the Cherry Icefall on the western flank of the Beardmore Glacier .

The four-man southern group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered the mountain on December 13, 1908 and roughly mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1986 after the British glaciologist and geophysicist David John Drewry (* 1947), from 1984 to 1987 director of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and from 1987 to 1994 head of the British Antarctic Survey , which from 1967 until 1979 was instrumental in the joint air-assisted echo sounding program of the SPRI, the National Science Foundation and Denmark's Technical University in Antarctica .

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