Storm Peak

The Marshall Mountains () are a group of mountains overlooking Beardmore Glacier in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. They are bounded on the north by Berwick Glacier, 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, and named for Dr. Eric Marshall, 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 and west of the Adams Mountains.
They are bounded by the Beardmore Glacier to the south, the Antarctic Plateau 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, 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

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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

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A mountain, high, standing between Swinford Glacier and Table Bay, in Queen Alexandra Range.
Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Harry L. Holloway, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) biologist at McMurdo Station, 1964-65.

Mount Augusta

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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.

Skaar Ridge

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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, 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

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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

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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

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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 (NZGSAE) (1961-62) because a blizzard prevented them from reaching it for several days.

Blizzard Heights

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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 party to the Queen Alexandra Range (1966-67) because of proximity to Blizzard Peak.

Lindsay Peak

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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