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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 Queen ...
in the
Queen Alexandra Range The Queen Alexandra Range () is a major mountain range about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf. The range is in the Transantarctic Mountains System, and is located in the Ross ...
, Antarctica. They are bounded on the north by
Berwick 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 Queen ...
, and on the south by Swinford Glacier.


Exploration and name

The Marshall Mountains were discovered by the South Polar Party of the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 The ''Nimrod'' Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent. Its main target, among a range of ...
, 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.


Location

The Marshall Mountains are in the southwest of the Queen Alexandra Range, to the south of Mount Falla, southwest of
Mount Kirkpatrick Mount Kirkpatrick () is a lofty, generally ice-free mountain in Queen Alexandra Range west of Mount Dickerson. At it is the highest point in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. Exploration and name Mount Kirkpatrick was discovered and na ...
and west of the
Adams Mountains The Adams Mountains () are a small but well defined group of mountains in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. They are bounded by the Beardmore Glacier, Berwick Glacier, Moody Glacier and Bingley Glacier. Exploration and name The Adams Moun ...
. They are bounded by the
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 Queen ...
to the south, the
Antarctic Plateau The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about , and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. Thi ...
to the west and the Walcott Névé to the northwest. Mount Marshall gives its name to the range. Features to its southeast include Swinford Glacier, Mount Holloway,
Table Bay Table Bay (Afrikaans: ''Tafelbaai'') is a natural bay on the Atlantic Ocean overlooked by Cape Town and is at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, which stretches south to the Cape of Good Hope. It was named because it is dominated by the fl ...
, Mount Augusta, Skaar Ridge and Mount Wild. Features to the north include Blizzard Peak, Blizzard Heights, Lindsay Peak, Mayeda Peak, Storm Peak, Peterson Ridge, Kenyon Peaks, Tempest Peak and Elliot Peak. The Goodwin Nunataks lie to the west.


Southern features

Features to the south include, from east to west:


Mount Marshall

. A prominent peak, high, standing southeast of Blizzard Peak. The peak is named in association with the Marshall Mountains, the latter honoring Doctor Eric S. Marshall of the BrAE, 1907-09.


Mount Holloway

. A mountain, high, standing between Swinford Glacier and Table Bay, in Queen Alexandra Range. Named by the United States
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for Harry L. Holloway,
United States Antarctic Research Program 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 a presence in the ...
(USARP) biologist at
McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), a branch of the National Science Foundation. The station is ...
, 1964-65.


Mount Augusta

. A peak east of Mount Wild, at the south end of the Queen Alexandra Range. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for Mrs. Swinford Edwards, a relative of
Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarcti ...
.


Skaar Ridge

. A ridge on the southeast side of Mount Augusta. It trends southeast for to Beardmore Glacier. This area was first sighted by Shackleton's Southern Journey Party in 1908. The ridge is the site of the only known (1971) Permian peat deposit of
Gondwanaland Gondwana ( ; ) was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent. The remnants of Gondwana make up around two-thirds of today's continental area, including South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia, Arabia, and the ...
, discovered here by James M. Schopf of the Ohio State University Geological Expedition, 1969-70. Named for Lieutenant Gerhard E. Skaar, United States Navy, who piloted the helicopter that took Schopf to the locality and subsequent discovery.


Mount Wild

. A peak west of Mount Augusta at the southwest extremity of the Queen Alexandra Range. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for Frank Wild, a member of the Southern Polar Party of that expedition.


Goodwin Nunataks

. A small group of isolated nunataks lying about west of Marshall Mountains, at the south side of Walcott Névé. Named by US-ACAN after Michael L. Goodwin, USARP geomagmetist and seismologist at South Pole Station, 1960.


Northern features

Northern features include, from south to north


Blizzard Peak

. The highest peak high in the Marshall Mountains, standing northwest of Mount Marshall. So named by the Northern Party of the
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Features named by the expeditions 19 ...
(NZGSAE) (1961-62) because a blizzard prevented them from reaching it for several days.


Blizzard Heights

. A high, elongate, flattish area in the Marshall Mountains, standing northwest of Blizzard Peak, from which it is separated by a broad snow col. The heights are about long and rise high above the surrounding snow surface. So named by the
Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...
party to the Queen Alexandra Range (1966-67) because of proximity to Blizzard Peak.


Lindsay Peak

. A basalt peak, high, standing west-northwest of Blizzard Peak. Named by the Ohio State University party to Queen Alexandra Range (1966-67) for John Lindsay, geologist with the party.


Mayeda Peak

. A peak, high, standing north of Mount Marshall. Named by US-ACAN for Fred H. Mayeda, United States ArmyRP meteorologist at South Pole Station, 1959.


Storm Peak

. A flat-topped peak, high, standing north of Blizzard Peak. So named by the NZGSAE (1961-62) because of the stormy conditions experienced in the area.


Peterson Ridge

. High rock ridge that extends north from the west part of Storm Peak massif. Named by the Ohio State University Geological Expedition, 1969-70, for Donald N. Peterson, party member who collected basalt lavas from the ridge forpetrologic and paleomagnetic studies.


Kenyon Peaks

. A small group of basalt peaks northwest of Storm Peak. Named by the Ohio State University party to the Queen Alexandra Range (1966-67) for D. Kenyon King, field assistant with the party.


Tempest Peak

. A sharp ice-covered peak high with a subordinate summit just southward, standing north-northeast of Storm Peak. So named by the NZGSAE (1961-62) because of the stormy conditions experienced in the area.


Elliot Peak

. The summit peak of a conspicuous northeast trending basalt ridge, rising northwest of Tempest Peak. Named by the Ohio State University party to the Queen Alexandra Range (1966-67) for David H. Elliot, geologist with the party.


Kip Peak

. A summit rising to over , located northeast of Tempest Peak on a northeast trending ridge. Named by US-ACAN in 1995 after Christopher A. (Kip) Miller, geologist, Ohio State University, who conducted field research in this area, 1990-91.


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