The Adams Mountains () are a small but well defined group of mountains in the

Queen Alexandra Range The Queen Alexandra Range () is a major mountain range about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf. The range is in the Transantarctic Mountains System, and is located in the Ross ...

, Antarctica. They are bounded by the

Beardmore Glacier The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of . It descends about from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen ...

Berwick Glacier The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of . It descends about from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen ...

, Moody Glacier and Bingley Glacier.

Exploration and name

The Adams Mountains were discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 and named Adams Mountains for Lieutenant Jameson B. Adams, second in command of the expedition. The British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 restricted the name to "Mount Adams" for a high peak in the group, but the original name and application are considered more apt and have been approved.

Location

The Adams Mountains are bounded by the

to the southeast. The

flows past its southwest point, and Moody Glacier, a tributary of the Berwick Glacier, defines its northwest boundary. The Bingley Glacier, a tributary of the Beardmore Glacier, defines the northeast boundary. Peaks include Mount Price and the Thompson Peaks. Mount Drewry and Barnes Peak are to the east.

Features

Features and nearby features include:

Mount Price

. The eastern of two peaks, rising to high at the north end of the Adams Mountains. Named by the United States

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. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for Rayburn Price,

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(USARP) meteorologist at Hallett Station, 1963.

Thompson Peaks

. Two peaks on the divide between upper Moody Glacier and Bingley Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Douglas C. Thompson, USARP cosmic rays scientist at McMurdo Station, 1963; South Pole Station, 1965.

Mount Drewry

. A prominent blocklike mountain on the west side of Beardmore Glacier, rising to high between Bingley Glacier and Cherry Icefall. Discovered and roughly mapped by the Southern Journey Party of the BrAE, led by

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. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarcti ...

, which was abreast of this mountain on December 13, 1908. Named by US-ACAN in 1986 after David J. Drewry, British glaciologist; a leader of the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79; Director, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1984-87; Director, British Antarctic Survey, from 1987.

Barnes Peak

. A peak, high, standing southeast of Mount Dickerson. Named by US-ACAN for Elwood E. Barnes, USARP cosmic rays scientist at Hallett Station, 1963.

References

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