The Du Toit Mountains are a group of mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

s about 60 km (35 mi) long and 16 km (10 mi) wide, to the SW of Wilson Mountains

Wilson Mountains

The Wilson Mountains First photographed from the air by USAS, 1940. Mapped by USGS from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1966-69. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, named by US-ACAN after John Tuzo Wilson , Canadian geophysicist who visited...

 in SE Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

, Antarctica. The mountains have peaks rising to 1,700 m and are bounded by Beaumont

Beaumont Glacier

Beaumont Glacier is a broad glacier flowing in a northeast direction to the southwest part of Hilton Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. The United States Antarctic Service discovered and photographed it from the air in 1940...

, Maury

Maury Glacier

Maury Glacier is a glacier 4 nautical miles wide, flowing in an east-northeast direction to the southwest corner of Violante Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service...

 and Defant Glacier

Defant Glacier

Defant Glacier is a glacier 2 nautical miles wide at its mouth, which flows east-southeast to the west side of Violante Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service...

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First photographed from the air by the USAS, 1940; rephotographed by the U.S. Navy, 1966–69, and mapped from the photographs by the USGS. In association with the names of continental drift

Continental drift

Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912...

 scientists grouped in this area, named by US-ACAN after Alexander du Toit

Alexander Du Toit

Alexander Logie du Toit was a geologist from South Africa, and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1878, du Toit was educated at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch and the University of the Cape of Good Hope...

(1878–1948), South African geologist, an early proponent of the theory of continental drift.