Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Grosvenor Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Grosvenor Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of ridges, rising to about 3200m high, which stand close north-west of the north-west facing escarpment of the Queen Maud Range that also marks the head of Shackleton Glacier some 20 miles to the north-east, bordering the South Polar Plateau and pierced by several glaciers. Discovered by the Byrd AE, 1928-30, on Byrd's flight to the South Pole in November 1929. Named by him for Gilbert Grosvenor, then President of the National Geographic Society, which helped finance the expedition.
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