Mount Griffith is a massive 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...

, 3,095 m, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) north-northeast of Mount Vaughan

Mount Vaughan

Mount Vaughan is a prominent peak, 3,140 m, standing 4 miles south-southwest of Mount Griffith on the ridge at the head of Vaughan Glacier, in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. Named for Norman D. Vaughan, dog driver with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence...

 in the Hays Mountains

Hays Mountains

Hays Mountains is a large group of mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains, surmounting the divide between the lower portions of Amundsen and Scott Glaciers and extending from the vicinity of Mount Thorne on the northwest to Mount Dietz on the southeast. Discovered by R...

 of 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...

. First observed and roughly mapped in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould. Remapped in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Raymond Griffith

Raymond Griffith

Raymond Griffith was one of the great silent movie comedians.Griffith was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He lost his voice at an early age, causing him to speak for the rest of his life in a hoarse whisper...

, of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted in assembling motion-picture records of the expedition.