Grosvenor Mountains

The Grosvenor Mountains are a group of widely scattered mountains and nunataks rising above the Antarctic polar plateau east of the head of Mill Glacier, extending from Mount Pratt in the north to the Mount Raymond area in the south, and from Otway Massif in the northwest to Larkman Nunatak in the southeast. ^[1]

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1. 17 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Albert H. Bumstead, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Dominion Range, Emily Shackleton, Ernest Shackleton, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Marie Byrd Land, Mill Glacier, National Geographic Society, New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, Nunatak, Queen Maud Mountains, Richard E. Byrd, South Pole, SY Aurora, United States Antarctic Program.

2. Dufek Coast
3. Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Albert H. Bumstead

Albert Hoit Bumstead (1875–January 9, 1940) was an American cartographer and inventor.

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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station

The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth.

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Dominion Range

The Dominion Range is a broad mountain range, about long, forming a prominent salient at the juncture of the Beardmore and Mill glaciers in Antarctica. Grosvenor Mountains and Dominion Range are Dufek Coast.

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Emily Shackleton

Emily Shackleton (15 May 1868 – 9 June 1936), also known as Lady Shackleton, was the wife of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the mother of Labour Party politician Edward Shackleton.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (October 28, 1875 – February 4, 1966), was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine (1899–1954).

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Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.

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Mill Glacier

Mill Glacier is a tributary glacier, wide, flowing northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica.

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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.

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Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Grosvenor Mountains and Queen Maud Mountains are mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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SY Aurora

SY Aurora was a 580-ton barque-rigged steam yacht built by Alexander Stephen and Sons Ltd.

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United States Antarctic Program

The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent.

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See also

Dufek Coast

• Barnum Peak
• Barton Mountains
• Bennett Platform
• Bush Mountains
• Commonwealth Range
• Cumulus Hills
• Dominion Range
• Dufek Coast
• Epidote Peak
• Fremouw Formation
• Gabbro Hills
• Giovinco Ice Piedmont
• Graphite Peak
• Grosvenor Mountains
• Guardian Nunatak
• Hughes Range (Antarctica)
• Last Cache Nunatak
• Lillie Range
• Meyer Desert
• Mount Finley
• Mount Young (Antarctica)
• O'Leary Peak (Antarctica)
• Prince Olav Mountains
• Roberts Massif
• Separation Range
• Supporters Range
• The Cloudmaker
• Thrinaxodon Col

Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

• Adams Mountains
• Barton Mountains
• Britannia Range (Antarctica)
• Carnegie Range
• Churchill Mountains
• Cook Mountains
• Darley Hills
• Duncan Mountains
• Erb Range
• Frigate Range
• Geologists Range
• Grosvenor Mountains
• Holland Range
• Holyoake Range
• Hughes Range (Antarctica)
• Lyttelton Range
• Marshall Mountains
• Moore Mountains
• Nash Range
• Prince Olav Mountains
• Queen Alexandra Range
• Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica)
• Queen Maud Mountains
• Rawson Mountains (Antarctica)
• Rockefeller Mountains
• Surveyors Range
• Worcester Range

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Mountains

Also known as Aitken Nunatak, Block Peak, Hayman Nunataks, Johnston Heights, Larkman Nunatak, Mauger Nunatak, Mom Peak, Mount Block, Mount Bumstead, Mount Cecily, Mount Emily (Antarctica), Mount Petlock, Mount Pratt, Mount Raymond, Mount Spohn, Otway Massif.

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