Rawson Mountains

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Rawson Mountains
location Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency )
part of Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains
Rawson Mountains (Antarctica)
Rawson Mountains
Coordinates 86 ° 43 ′  S , 154 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 86 ° 43 ′  S , 154 ° 40 ′  W
Map sheet Nilsen Plateau from 1966, Rawson Mountains in the southern half of the map

Map sheet Nilsen Plateau from 1966, Rawson Mountains in the southern half of the map

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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).

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