The Marshall Mountains () are a group of mountains overlooking

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 Que ...

in the

Queen Alexandra Range The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. It is about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau ...

, Antarctica. They are bounded on the north by

Berwick Glacier Berwick Glacier () is a tributary glacier, long, flowing southeast between the Marshall Mountains and the Adams Mountains to enter Beardmore Glacier at Willey Point in Antarctica. It was named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, ( ...

, and on the south by

Swinford 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 The Commo ...

. The mountains were discovered by the South Polar Party of the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09), and named for Dr.

Eric Marshall Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall (29 May 1879 – 26 February 1963) was a British Army doctor and Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907–09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton, ...

, surgeon and cartographer to the expedition, a member of the Polar Party.

Mountains

Blizzard Peak Blizzard Peak () is, at , the highest peak in the Marshall Mountains, Queen Alexandra Range, standing northwest of Mount Marshall and southeast of Blizzard Heights, from which they are separated by a broad snow col It was so named by the Nor ...

, at 3,375 metres (11,070 ft), the highest peak in the Marshall Mountains *

Kenyon Peaks The Kenyon Peaks () are a small group of basalt peaks northwest of Storm Peak, in the Marshall Mountains of Antarctica. They were named by the Ohio State University party to the Queen Alexandra Range The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mount ...

, located northwest of

Storm Peak Storm Peak () is a flat-topped peak, 3,280 m, standing 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) north of Blizzard Peak in the Marshall Mountains, Queen Alexandra Range. So named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geol ...

, in the Marshall Mountains * Mayeda Peak, at 2,890 metres (9,480 ft) high, in the Marshall Mountains *

, standing 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) north of Blizzard Peak in the Marshall Mountains

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* Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency Shackleton Coast {{ShackletonCoast-geo-stub