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. Captain 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 Norwegian queen Maud of Wales. Despite the name, they are not located within Queen Maud Land.

Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton (1907–09) and Robert Falcon Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Features

Geographical features include:

Barton Mountains

Bush Mountains

Commonwealth Range

Dominion Range

Gothic Mountains

Grosvenor Mountains

Hays Mountains

Herbert Range

Hughes Range

La Gorce Mountains

Prince Olav Mountains

Quarles Range

Rawson Mountains

Supporters Range

Tapley Mountains

Other features

Amphibole Peak

Amundsen Glacier

Amundsen Icefall

Anderson Ridge

Barracouta Ridge

Bartlett Bench

Beck Peak

Breyer Mesa

Butchers Spur

Bynum Peak

Cascade Bluff

Cenotaph Hill

Chevron Rocks

Christy Glacier

Collinson Ridge

Coloured Peak

Cowie Dome

Crack Bluff

Crilly Hill

Cunningham Glacier

Curtis Peaks

Davis Hills

Dick Glacier

Dunn Spur

Epidote Peak

Epler Glacier

Erb Range

Erickson Glacier

Faulkner Escarpment

Feeney Col

Fernette Peak

Ford Spur

Forman Glacier

Fram Mesa

Fulgham Ridge

Fuller Dome

Garcia Point

Gardner Ridge

Gerasimou Glacier

Gjelsvik Peak

Goodale Glacier

Gray Peak

Gregory Ridge

Haas Glacier

Hansen Spur

Hare Peak

Held Glacier

Holdsworth Glacier

Howe Glacier

Husky Dome

Husky Heights

June Nunatak

Keel Hill

Kitching Ridge

Kranz Peak

Kutschin Peak

Layman Peak

Lee Peak

Lindstrøm Peak

Liv Glacier

McCuistion Glacier

McDonough Nunataks

McNally Peak

Moffett Glacier

Moraine Canyon

Mount Alice Gade

Mount Amherst

Mount Andrews

Mount Behling

Mount Benjamin

Mount Bennett

Mount Bjaaland

Mount Blackburn

Mount Blood

Mount Bowlin

Mount Bowser

Mount Clarke

Mount Clough

Mount Cole

Mount Cope

Mount Czegka

Mount Danforth

Mount Deardorff

Mount Denauro

Mount Dockery

Mount Don Pedro Christophersen

Mount Ehrenspeck

Mount Ellsworth

Mount Fairweather

Mount Farley

Mount Ferguson

Mount Fridtjof Nansen

Mount Gardiner

Mount Hanssen

Mount Harkness

Mount Hassel

Mount Hermanson

Mount Innes-Taylor

Mount Johnstone

Mount Kendrick

Mount Kristensen

Mount Maloney

Mount McKercher

Mount Meeks

Mount Nansen

Mount Nelson

Mount Noville

Mount Orndorff

Mount Prestrud

Mount Przywitowski

Mount Pulitzer

Mount Redifer

Mount Riley

Mount Roland

Mount Rosenwald

Mount Russell

Mount Ruth

Mount Saltonstall

Mount Schevill

Mount Stubberud

Mount Suarez

Mount Sundbeck

Mount Toth

Mount Valinski

Mount Verlautz

Mount Warden

Mount Wasko

Mount Wilbur

Mount Wisting

Muck Glacier

Munizaga Peak

Nilsen Plateau

Norway Glacier

Olds Peak

Olsen Crags

Pallid Peak

Parker Bluff

Patterson Peak

Pegmatite Peak

Pendant Ridge

Polaris Peak

Poulter Glacier

Price Bluff

Rawson Mountains

Rawson Plateau

Red Raider Rampart

Reedy Glacier

Reid Spur

Roaring Cliffs

Robinson Bluff

Sagehen Nunataks