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 Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales.
Photo of Mount Fridtjof Nansen in the Queen Maud Mountains taken by Roald Amundsen
Amundsen in center
The Transantarctic Mountains comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land. These mountains divide East Antarctica and West Antarctica. They include a number of separately named mountain groups, which are often again subdivided into smaller ranges.
The Transantarctic Mountains in northern Victoria Land near Cape Roberts
Image: Transantarctic mountains highlighted
Aerial view of the Dugdale Glacier in 1957
Mount Herschel (3,335 m (10,942 ft)) in the Admiralty Mountains subrange, as seen from Cape Hallett
