Discovered and photographed by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his return flight from the South Pole in November 1929, and named by him for Van Lear Black, American financier and contributor to ByrdAE of 1928-30 and 1933-35.

Kitching was an exchange scientist with the Ohio State University Institute of Polar Studies 1970-71 geological party to the Queen Maud Mountains.

Named by F. Alton Wade, leader of the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition (1962-63) because all three members of the party were affiliated with this college.

A spectacular mountain, 3,450 metres (11,320 ft) high, which forms a distinctive landmark between the heads of Gallup and Baldwin Glaciers.

Small group of isolated rock nunataks at the south margin of the Queen Maud Mountains, rising above the ice plateau 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) west of Mount Rosenwald.