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

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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 The Davey Nunataks () are a group of seven nunatak lying southwest of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains. They were mapped by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from air photos, 1956–60, and named by the Antarctic Names Commit ...

* 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 aerial ...

* 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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