Saunders Mountain is a massive islandlike mountain

Mountain

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 rising to 975 m at the west end of Denfeld Mountains

Denfeld Mountains

Denfeld Mountains is a group of scattered mountains between Crevasse Valley Glacier and Arthur Glacier in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. The mountains were explored by the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions and by the United States Antarctic Service all led by R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Named for...

, 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...

, on the Saunders Coast

Saunders Coast

Saunders Coast is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Cape Colbeck and Brennan Point, or between Shirase Coast in the west and Ruppert Coast in the east. It stretches from 158°00'W to 146°31'W. The portion west of 150°W is part of Ross Dependency, while the remaining area is...

, 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 on an aerial flight of December 5, 1929, and named by R. Admiral Byrd after Captain Harold E. Saunders

Harold E. Saunders

Harold Eugene Saunders , was the leading hydrodynamicist in the United States in the mid 20th century. He is best known for the 3-volume book, Hydrodynamics in Ship Design.-Naval career and design work:...

, U.S. Navy (1890–1961), naval architect, cartographer and toponymist; chief cartographer of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30 and 1933–35, who compiled maps of this coast from aerial photographs obtained by the Byrd expeditions; Technical Director

Technical director

The Technical Director or Technical Manager is usually a senior technical person within a software company, film studio, theatrical company or television studio...

, David Taylor Model Basin

David Taylor Model Basin

The David Taylor Model Basin is one of the largest ship model basins — test facilities for the development of ship design — in the world...

, Carderock, MD, 1940-46 (Director, 1946–47); Consultant to Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy, to 1961; member of US-SCAN, 1943–46; Chairman, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

(US-ACAN), 1947-61.