Mount Riddolls () is a very prominent mountain, high, situated directly at the head of

Rudolph Glacier Andvord Bay () is a bay, long and wide, which lies between Beneden Head and Duthiers Point along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Andvord Bay is on the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extands i ...

in the

Victory Mountains The Victory Mountains () are a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea. They are north of the Mountaineer Range, east of the Freyber ...

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

, Antarctica.

Name

Mount Riddolls was named by the

Mariner Glacier The Mariner Glacier () is a major glacier over long, descending southeast from the plateau of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Mountaineer Range and Malta Plateau, and terminating at Lady Newnes Bay, Ross Sea, where it forms the floating Ma ...

geology party of the

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Features named by the expeditions 19 ...

(NZGSAE) of 1966–67, for Bruce W. Riddolls, the assistant geologist with the party.

Location

Mount Riddolls is in the Victory Mountains above the head of the

Borchgrevink Glacier Borchgrevink Glacier () is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It drains south between Malta Plateau and Daniell Peninsula, and thence projects into Glacier Strait (Antarctica), Glacier Strait, Ross Sea, as a floa ...

. The

Hand Glacier Borchgrevink Glacier () is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It drains south between Malta Plateau and Daniell Peninsula, and thence projects into Glacier Strait, Ross Sea, as a floating glacier tongue. Expl ...

is to the south. It is east of the

Malta Plateau The Malta Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau of about extent in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The plateau is irregular in shape and is bounded on the south and west by Mariner Glacier, on the north by tributaries to Tra ...

and southwest of

Mount Freeman Mount Freeman () is a prominent mountain, high, surmounting the base of Walker Ridge, northwest of Mount Lepanto, in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming Mount Freeman was mapped by the United States Geol ...

The Clapp Ridge, Stever Ridge and Hackerman Ridge radiate from the mountain, as does the ridge that holds Mount Frosch. Mount Lopatin stands on the Stever Ridge.

Features

Clapp Ridge

. A narrow, steep-sided ridge about long, forming the north wall of Hand Glacier. Mapped by the

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(USGS) from surveys and

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air photos, 1960-64. Named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for James L. Clapp, member of the United States ArmyRP glaciological party to Roosevelt Island, 1967-68.

Stever Ridge

. Irregular ridge stretching southeast from Mount Riddolls to the confluence of Behr Glacier and Borchgrevink Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for H. Guyford Stever, Director of the

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, 1972-74, which has overall administrative responsibility for the

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(USARP). He traveled and worked in Antarctica on two occasions, 1973 and 1975.

Mount Lopatin

. A mountain high situated east-southeast of Mount Riddolls. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Boris Lopatin, Soviet exchange scientist at McMurdo Station, 1968.

Mount Frosch

. A mainly snow-covered mountain high standing northeast of Mount Riddolls at the head of Borchgrevink Glacier. Mapped by the USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Robert A. Frosch, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, 1971-72; Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1978.

Hackerman Ridge

. A large mountainous ridge trending north–south between the Gruendler and Rudolph Glaciers. Named by US-ACAN for Norman Hackerman, member of National Science Board, 1968-78; Chairman since 1974. He visited Antarctica in 1975 and 1977 as part of his official duties in support of the United States scientific program in Antarctica.

Mount Randall

. A mountain rising to high at the south end of Hackerman Ridge. The mountain, which forms the summit area in this part of the ridge, is west of Mount Riddolls and northeast of

Mount Burrill The Malta Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau of about extent in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The plateau is irregular in shape and is bounded on the south and west by Mariner Glacier, on the north by tributaries to Trafal ...

, with which this name is associated. Named by the US-ACAN in 1994 after Richard R. Randall, geographer and cartographer, Executive Secretary, United States Board on Geographic Names, 1973-93, whose office included responsibility for geographic nomenclature in Antarctica. Succeeding Meredith F. Burrill as Executive Secretary, Randall combined with Burrill to direct a half-century of American geographic names research.

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