Mount Gardiner is a ridge-like granitic mountain

Mountain

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, 2,480 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of Mount Ruth

Mount Ruth

Mount Ruth is a ridge-shaped mountain, 2,170 m, standing 3 nautical miles west of Mount Gardiner, at the southeast side of the lower reaches of Bartlett Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and...

 and just south of the junction of Bartlett and Scott Glaciers, in the Queen Maud Mountains

Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...

. Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Joseph T. Gardiner of Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, agent for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30 and 1933-35.