Rawson Mountains
Rawson Mountains | ||
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location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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Coordinates | 86 ° 43 ′ S , 154 ° 40 ′ W | |
Map sheet Nilsen Plateau from 1966, Rawson Mountains in the southern half of the map |
The Rawson Mountains are a crescent-shaped mountain range in Marie-Byrd Land, western Antarctica . As part of the Queen Maud Mountains , they are made up of flattened, icy mountains that include the Fuller Dome , Mount Wyatt, and Mount Verlautz . They rise southeast of the Nilsen Plateau and extend over a length of 29 km along the western flank of the Scott Glacier .
The team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered the mountain range in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after the American banker Frederick Holbrook Rawson (1879-1937), sponsor of this and Byrd's first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930).
Web links
- Rawson Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rawson Mountains on geographic.org (English)