The Grove Mountains are a large, scattered group of mountains and

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s extending over an area of approximately , located east of the Mawson Escarpment in American Highland,

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. They were first photographed from the air by aircraft of U.S. Navy

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, 1946–47, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Squadron Leader I.L. Grove, a

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pilot with the

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, who made a November 1958 landing in these mountains.

Features in the Grove Mountains

* Black Nunataks * Bode Nunataks * Bryse Peaks * Cooke Peak * Davey Nunataks * Gale Escarpment * Lamberts Peak * Mason Peaks * Melvold Nunataks *

Mount Harding Mount Harding is the largest mountain in the Grove Mountains of Antarctica, in the south-central part of the range and about west of Gale Escarpment. It was mapped by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1956–60) from aeria ...

* Tate Rocks * Truman Nunatak * Watts Nunatak * Wilson Ridge * Vukovich Peaks * Zakharoff Ridge

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Features in the Grove Mountains

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