Saunders Mountain

Saunders Mountain
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height	975 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Denfeld Mountains , Ford Ranges
Coordinates	77 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 77 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W

The Saunders Mountain is an island-like and 975 m high massif in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises at the western end of the Denfeld Mountains in the Ford Ranges not far from the Saunders coast .

He was discovered on December 5, 1929 during an overflight during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). The expedition leader, the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd named him after Harold Eugene Saunders (1890-1961), chief cartographer of this and Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names from 1947 to 1961.

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