COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

A major range of mountains standing at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf in the general direction of the Beardmore Glacier and extending in a south-east direction for an indeterminate distance beyond 87º00 S, 145º00 W. Discovered in 1911 by Amundsen on his way towards the South Pole and named by him for the Queen of Norway. Not Dronning Mauds Fjell (Norwegian), Konigin Maud Gebirge (German), or Queen Maud's Range.

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 polar plateau. Capt. Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for the Queen of Norway. Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by E.H. Shackleton (1907-09) and R.F. Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by R.E. Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and USARP and NZARP expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s.