Nye Mountains
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 10 ′ S , 49 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Nye Mountains are a group of mountains and nunataks in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They are distributed east of the head end of the Rayner Glacier over a length of 50 km and a width of 16 to 24 km. These include the Alderdice Peak , the Amphitheater Peaks , Mount Boda , Mount Denholm , Mount Flett , the Greenall Nunatakker , the Gory Kartografov , the Knipowitsch Nunatak , the Krasin Nunatakker , the Krasnaya Nunatak , Mount Marriner , the Papanin- Nunatakker , Mount Robinson , the Trubjachinsky Nunatak , Gora Utrennjaja , Mount Underwood and the Ward Nunatakker .
They were discovered by Douglas Walter Leckie (* 1920), flight squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air Force , during an overflight in October 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountains after the Australian geologist Percival Bartlett Nye (1893–1985), head of the Bureau of Mineral Resources of the Australian Department of National Development from 1951 to 1958.
Web links
- Nye Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nye Mountains on geographic.org (English)