Bowers Mountains is a group of north-south trending mountain

Mountain

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s in Antarctica, about 145 km (90 mi) long and 56 km (35 mi) wide, bounded by the coast on the north and by the Rennick

Rennick Glacier

Rennick Glacier is broad glacier, nearly 200 miles long, which is one of the largest in Antarctica. It rises on the polar plateau westward of Mesa Range and is 20 to 30 miles wide, narrowing to 10 miles near the coast. It takes its name from Rennick Bay where the glacier reaches the sea. The...

, Canham

Canham Glacier

Canham Glacier is a tributary glacier about long which drains the northwest part of Evans Neve. The glacier drains northwest between the Alamein Range and the Salamander Range of the Freyberg Mountains and enters the Rennick Glacier westward of Bowers Peak. It was mapped by the United States...

, Black

Black Glacier

Black Glacier is a broad tributary to the Lillie Glacier flowing northeast, marking the southeast extent of the Bowers Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names...

 and Lillie

Lillie Glacier

Lillie Glacier is a large glacier, about 160 km long and 16 km wide, between Bowers Mountains on the west and Concord and Anare Mountains on the east, flowing to Ob' Bay on the coast and forming the Lillie Glacier Tongue. The glacier tongue was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition,...

 glaciers in other quadrants. The seaward end was first sighted in February 1911 from the Terra Nova, under Lt. Harry L.L. Pennell, RN

Royal Navy

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, and was subsequently named "Bowers Hills" in honour of Henry Robertson Bowers who perished with Captain Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...

 on their return from the South Pole

South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...

 in 1912.

The feature was photographed from U.S. Navy aircraft in 1946-47 and 1960-62, and was surveyed and mapped by USGS

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...

in 1962-63. The name was amended to Bowers Mountains upon USGS mapping which showed the group to be a major one with peaks rising to nearly 2,600 metres.