Haines Mountains
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The Haines Mountains is a range
of ice-capped mountain
s trending NW-SE for about 40 km (24.9 mi) and forming the SW wall of Hammond Glacier
, in the Ford Ranges
of Marie Byrd Land
. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for William C. Haines, meteorologist of the Byrd AE (1928-30 and 1933-35).
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...
of ice-capped mountain
Mountain
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s trending NW-SE for about 40 km (24.9 mi) and forming the SW wall of Hammond Glacier
Hammond Glacier
The Hammond Glacier is located on the NE side of the Haines Mountains, flowing NW for about 40 [mile]s to Sulzberger Ice Shelf in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered in 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and named by Byrd for John Hays Hammond, American mining engineer and...
, in the Ford Ranges
Ford Ranges
The Ford Ranges is a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica...
of Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...
. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for William C. Haines, meteorologist of the Byrd AE (1928-30 and 1933-35).