Dana Mountains

[1] Download coordinates as: The Dana Mountains are in southern Palmer Land on the Lassiter Coast of the Weddell Sea.

Named by US-ACAN for Charles S. Axworthy, a hospital corpsman and leader of the support personnel with the Palmer Station winter party in 1965.

A nunatak on the north side of Haines Glacier, 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) southwest of Mount Axworthy, in the Dana Mountains.

Named by US-ACAN for John J. Walsh, biologist, member of the Palmer Station-Eastwind Expedition, summer 1965-66.

Named by US-ACAN for Michael P. Galan, a member of the McMurdo Station winter party in 1967 and of the South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse III in 1967-68.

Mapped in greater detail by USGS from ground surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1961-67.

Nunatak 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) long which rises to 685 metres (2,247 ft) high, standing close east of the mouth of Meinardus Glacier on the west side of New Bedford Inlet.

Named by the FIDS for Arnold Court, American meteorologist and member of the West Base unit of the US AS, 1939-41.

A group of about four nunataks rising to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) near the head of Mosby Glacier, to the south of Journal Peaks in south-central Palmer Land.

Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Godfrey A. Holden, BAS general assistant who took part in the survey; later, Station Commander, Rothera, 1977-78.

Mountain on the south side of Haines Glacier, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north of Mount Barkow.

Mountain, 1,390 metres (4,560 ft) high, which stands 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Court Nunatak and New Bedford Inlet and marks the east end of the ridge separating Haines and Meinardus Glaciers.

A cluster of isolated nunataks in the interior of southern Palmer Land, about 28 nautical miles (52 km; 32 mi) northeast of Mount Vang.

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Palmer Land. North tip of Dana Mountains in southeast of map
Eastern Ellsworth Land (south), Southern Palmer Land (north). Dana Mountains in northeast of map.