Rockefeller Mountains

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Rockefeller Mountains
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with the Rockefeller Mountains (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with the Rockefeller Mountains (bottom left)

Highest peak Mount Fitzsimmons ( 876  m )
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Rockefeller Mountains (Antarctica)
Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 0 ′  S , 155 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 78 ° 0 ′  S , 155 ° 0 ′  W
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The Rockefeller Mountains are a group of low and scattered granitic mountains and ridges in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula they rise around 50 km south-southwest of the Alexandra Mountains .

Participants of the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered the mountains during a flyover on January 27, 1929. Expedition leader Richard Evelyn Byrd named it after the American entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960), a sponsor of the research trip.

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