The Monteath Hills () are a group of mountains in the

Victory Mountains The Victory Mountains () is 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. The division between these mountains and the Concord Mou ...

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 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...

, Antarctica, bounded by

Jutland Glacier Lillie Glacier () is a large glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide. It lies between the Bowers Mountains on the west and the Concord Mountains and Anare Mountains on the east, flowing to Ob' Bay on the coast and forming the Lillie Glacier ...

Midway Glacier Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, about 144 km (90 mi) long, flowing southeast between Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea. There is a snow saddle at the glacier's head, just west of Homer ...

Pearl Harbor Glacier Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, about 144 km (90 mi) long, flowing southeast between Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea. There is a snow saddle at the glacier's head, just west of Homer ...

, and

Plata Glacier Lillie Glacier () is a large glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide. It lies between the Bowers Mountains on the west and the Concord Mountains and Anare Mountains on the east, flowing to Ob' Bay on the coast and forming the Lillie Glacier T ...

. The group includes Mount Crowder, Mount Tararua ( high), and Mount Holdsworth. The hills were named by the

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(NZ-APC) in 1983, after Colin Monteath, a field operations officer with the Antarctic Division of the

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Location

The Monteath Hills are bounded by the

to the northwest,

to the south,

to the northeast and

to the southeast. The

Saxby Range The Saxby Range () is a broad mountain range, rising to , in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is bounded by Jutland Glacier, Tucker Glacier, Pearl Harbor Glacier, and Midway Glacier. Name The Saxby Range was named by the Ne ...

is to the east of the Midway Glacier. The

Millen Range The Millen Range () is a prominent northwest–southeast trending mountain range, located west of the Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains of Antarctica. Peaks in the range include Inferno, O'Donnell, Omega, Le Couteur, Head, Cirque, Gle ...

lies to the south west.

Features

Mount Crowder

. A prominent mountain, high, located northeast of Mount Tararua. Mapped by

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(USGS) from surveys and

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air photos, 1960-64. Named by United States

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(US-ACAN) for Dwight F. Crowder, geologist at Hallett Station, summer 1964-65.

Mount Tararua

. A prominent peak, high, surmounting the southwest part of Monteath Hills. Climbed on January 3, 1963 by the Southern Party of NZFMCAE, 1962-63, who named it after their parent mountain club, the Tararua Tramping Club, Wellington, New Zealand.

Mount Holdsworth

. A granite peak high in the east part of Monteath Hills. Named by the

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(NZFMCAE), 1962-63, after Gerald Holdsworth, leader of the northern party of this expedition.

References

Sources

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