Mount Bumstead is a large, isolated mountain, 2990 metres (9,809.7 ft) high, standing 10 miles (16.1 km) southeast of Otway Massif

Otway Massif

Otway Massif is a prominent, mainly ice-free massif, about 10 nautical miles long and 7 nautical miles wide, standing at the northwest end of the Grosvenor Mountains at the confluence of Mill Glacier and Mill Stream Glacier. Surveyed and named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological...

 in the Grosvenor Mountains

Grosvenor Mountains

Grosvenor Mountains is a group of widely scattered mountains and nunataks rising above the polar plateau east of the head of Mill Glacier, extending from Mount Pratt in the north to the Mount Raymond area in the south, and from Otway Massif in the northwest to Larkman Nunatak in the SE. Discovered...

. It was discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight to 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 November 1929 and named by him for Albert H. Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society

National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical...

at that time, and inventor of the sun compass, a device utilizing shadows of the sun to determine directions in areas where magnetic compasses are unreliable.