The Traverse Mountains of Antarctica are a group of almost ice-free mountains, rising to about 1550 metres (5,085.3 ft), and including McHugo Peak

McHugo Peak

McHugo Peak is a prominent peak rising to 1,250 m, marking the northwest extremity of Traverse Mountains on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. The peak was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1966, and was surveyed by British Antarctic Survey , 1971-72. Named by the United Kingdom...

, Mount Noel, Mount Allan

Mount Allan

Mount Allan is the largest massif in the Traverse Mountains, isolated to the north and south by low passes, on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. Named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Thomas J. Allan , British Antarctic Survey radio operator at Stonington Island,...

 and Mount Eissinger

Mount Eissinger

Mount Eissinger is a large ridge-like mountain at the north side of Riley Glacier on the west side of Palmer Land. The feature has a snow-topped upper surface, bare rock cliffs along the north side, and an impressive rectangular rock buttress rises in an unbroken, near-vertical sweep from the...

, between Eureka Glacier

Eureka Glacier

Eureka Glacier is a broad, gently sloping glacier, 18 nautical miles long and 17 nautical miles wide at its mouth, which flows westward from the west side of Palmer Land into George VI Sound...

 and Riley Glacier

Riley Glacier

Riley Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier, 14 nautical miles long and 17 nautical miles wide, flowing westward from the west side of Palmer Land into George VI Sound between the Traverse Mountains and Mount Dixey. First sighted and surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under...

, east of Warren Ice Piedmont

Warren Ice Piedmont

Warren Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont on the Rymill Coast of Palmer Land, lying westward of Traverse Mountains and bounded north and south by Terminus Nunatak and Riley Glacier, the latter once considered to include this ice piedmont. The feature was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy,...

, in western Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. These mountains were first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 and were mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg. They were first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill and resurveyed in 1948 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey. The name was first used by BGLE sledging parties because the mountains are an important landmark in the overland traverse from the Wordie Ice Shelf

Wordie Ice Shelf

The Wordie Ice Shelf was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula....

, down Eureka Glacier, to George VI Sound

George VI Sound

George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles long in the shape of the letter J, which skirts the east and south shores of Alexander Island, separating it from the...

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