Darwin Mountains
The Darwin Mountains is a group of mountains between the Darwin and Hatherton glaciers in Antarctica. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Features
- Access Slope
- Colosseum Ridge
- Communication Heights
- Conant Valley
- Corell Cirque
- Darwin Glacier
- Darwin Névé
- Duncan Bluff
- Exodus Glacier
- Exodus Valley
- Friedmann Peak
- Grant Valley
- Green Glacier
- Hale Valley
- Harvey Cirque
- Haskell Ridge
- Hatherton Glacier
- Island Arena
- Junction Spur
- Kennett Ridge
- Lindstrom Ridge
- Mason Nunatak
- McKay Valley
- Meteorite Hills
- Midnight Plateau
- Misthound Cirque
- Mount Ash
- Mount Ellis
- Muchmore Valley
- Overturn Glacier
- Polarmail Ledge
- Prebble Icefalls
- Richardson Hill
- Scheuermann Spur
- Score Ridge
- Skilton Ledge
- Smith Heights
- Tether Rock
- Wellman Valley
Further reading
- Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water, PP 297 – 300
- Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, John L. Isbell, Editors, Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space, PP 59 – 69
- WARWICK F. VINCENT, CLIVE HOWARD-WILLIAMS, Nitrate-rich inland waters of the Ross Ice Shelf region, Antarctica, Antarctic Science 6 (3): 339-346 (1994), P 340
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