Tapley Mountains
| Tapley Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 20 ′ S , 158 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Leverett Glacier map sheet from 1966, Tapley Mountains in the southwest quarter of the map |
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The Tapley Mountains are about 56 km long mountain range in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends on the western flank of the Scott Glacier between the Leverett Glacier and the Albanus Glacier .
It was discovered in December 1929 by the group led by geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) as part of the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after Harold Livingstone Tapley (1875-1932), New Zealand member of parliament and mayor of Dunedin , who acted as agent for Byrd's expedition.
Web links
- Tapley Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tapley Mountains on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1542 (English).
Map sheet Mount Goodale from 1966 (new edition 1988), western end of the Tapley Mountains on the eastern edge of the map