Mount Betty
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Mount Betty is a small ridge overlooking Ross Ice Shelf
, located on the north side of Bigend Saddle
in the northeast extremity of the Herbert Range
, Queen Maud Mountains
. Discovered in November 1911 by Captain Roald Amundsen
, and named by him for Betty Andersson, nurse and housekeeper in the Amundsen family for many years.
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...
, located on the north side of Bigend Saddle
Bigend Saddle
Bigend Saddle is a snow-covered saddle at the southwest side of Mount Betty in northern Herbert Range, Queen Maud Mountains. The saddle was traversed in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould...
in the northeast extremity of the Herbert Range
Herbert Range
The Herbert Range is a mountain range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg and Strom glaciers....
, Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains
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 polar plateau in Antarctica...
. Discovered in November 1911 by Captain Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 and he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage....
, and named by him for Betty Andersson, nurse and housekeeper in the Amundsen family for many years.