The Adams Mountains are a small but well defined group of mountain

Mountain

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s in Queen Alexandra Range

Queen Alexandra Range

The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range in East Antarctica, about 160 km long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf. Alternate names for this range include Alexandra Mountains, Alexandra Range and Königin Alexandra...

, bounded by the Beardmore

Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest glaciers in the world, with a length exceeding 160 km . The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Alexandra and Commonwealth ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and was one...

, Berwick

Berwick Glacier

Berwick Glacier is a tributary glacier, long, flowing southeast between the Marshall Mountains and the Adams Mountains to enter Beardmore Glacier at Willey Point. It was named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, after HMS Berwick, a vessel on which Lieutenant Jameson B. Adams of the...

, Moody

Moody Glacier

Moody Glacier is a glacier between Martin Ridge and Adams Mountains in the Queen Alexandra Range, draining south into Berwick Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Construction Electrician P.R. Moody, U.S. Navy, at McMurdo Station, winter 1963....

 and Bingley Glacier

Bingley Glacier

Bingley Glacier is a glacier long in Queen Alexandra Range, draining south from the slopes of Mount Kirkpatrick, Mount Dickerson and Barnes Peak and entering Beardmore Glacier just north of Adams Mountains. It was named by Ernest Shackleton after Bingley, England, the ancestral home of the...

s. Discovered by British Antarctic Expedition

Nimrod Expedition

The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole...

 (1907–09) and named Adams Mountains for Lieutenant Jameson B. Adams, second in command of the expedition. The British Antarctic Expedition

Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Scott and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, to find that a Norwegian team led by Roald...

 (1910–13) restricted the name to Mount Adams for a high peak

Summit (topography)

In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

in the group, but the original name and application are considered more apt and have been approved.