Welch Mountains

The Welch Mountains are a group of mountains within the British Antarctic Territory, in Palmer Land - the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Dominating this part of Palmer Land, the Welch Mountains rise to their highest peak rising to 9,892 feet, 25 nautical miles north of Mount Jackson, on the east margin of the Dyer Plateau.

These mountains were probably seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth, the American explorer, during his flights of 21 and 23 November 1935. Their northern extremities were sketched in 1936 by a sledge party of the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill. In 1940 they were photographed from the air and charted from the ground by the United States Antarctic Service, and in the expedition reports and charts were assumed to be Ellsworth's Eternity Range. The mountains were mapped in detail by United States Geological Survey in 1974.

The Welch Mountains are named after Admiral David F. Welch, Commander of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1969-71.

Outside links

• Location map: 70°57’0"S, 63°30’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Welch Mountains