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. Despite the name, they are not located within Queen Maud Land. Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton (1907–09) and Robert Falcon Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s. Features Geographical features include: Barton Mountains Bush Mountains Commonwealth Range Dominion Range Gothic Mountains Grosvenor Mountains Hays Mountains Herbert Range Hughes Range La Gorce Mountains Prince Olav Mountains Quarles Range Rawson Mountains Supporters Range Tapley Mountains Other features Amphibole Peak Amundsen Glacier Amundsen Icefall Anderson Ridge Barracouta Ridge Bartlett Bench Beck Peak Breyer Mesa Butchers Spur Bynum Peak Cascade Bluff Cenotaph Hill Chevron Rocks Christy Glacier Collinson Ridge Coloured Peak Cowie Dome Crack Bluff Crilly Hill Cunningham Glacier Curtis Peaks Davis Hills Dick Glacier Dunn Spur Epidote Peak Epler Glacier Erb Range Erickson Glacier Faulkner Escarpment Feeney Col Fernette Peak Ford Spur Forman Glacier Fram Mesa Fulgham Ridge Fuller Dome Garcia Point Gardner Ridge Gerasimou Glacier Gjelsvik Peak Goodale Glacier Gray Peak Gregory Ridge Haas Glacier Hansen Spur Hare Peak Held Glacier Holdsworth Glacier Howe Glacier Husky Dome Husky Heights June Nunatak Keel Hill Kitching Ridge Kranz Peak Kutschin Peak Layman Peak Lee Peak Lindstrøm Peak Liv Glacier McCuistion Glacier McDonough Nunataks McNally Peak Moffett Glacier Moraine Canyon Mount Alice Gade Mount Amherst Mount Andrews Mount Behling Mount Benjamin Mount Bennett Mount Bjaaland Mount Blackburn Mount Blood Mount Bowlin Mount Bowser Mount Clarke Mount Clough Mount Cole Mount Cope Mount Czegka Mount Danforth Mount Deardorff Mount Denauro Mount Dockery Mount Don Pedro Christophersen Mount Ehrenspeck Mount Ellsworth Mount Fairweather Mount Farley Mount Ferguson Mount Fridtjof Nansen Mount Gardiner Mount Hanssen Mount Harkness Mount Hassel Mount Hermanson Mount Innes-Taylor Mount Johnstone Mount Kendrick Mount Kristensen Mount Maloney