Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Hays Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hays Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large group of mountains and peaks of the Queen Maud Mountains, surmounting the divide between the lower portions of Amundsen and Scott Glaciers and extending from the vicinity of Mount Thorne on the northwest to Mount Dietz on the southeast. Discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the South Pole flight of November 28-29, 1929, and mapped in part by the ByrdAE geological parties to this area in 1929 and 1934. Named by Byrd for Will Hays, former head of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors.
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