Mount Bennett is a prominent
mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
(3,090 m) about 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of
Mount Boyd, surmounting the west part of
Anderson Heights Anderson Heights () form a roughly rectangular snow-covered tableland, long and wide, with an elevation somewhat over , located between Mount Bennett and Mount Butters in the east part of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and ...
,
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarct ...
. Discovered by the
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
(USAS) (1939–41), and surveyed by the
U.S. Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party (1957–58) led by
A.P. Crary
Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysics, geophysicist and glaciology, glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on M ...
. Named by Crary for Hugh Bennett, seismologist with the party.
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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