
Tyndall Mountains
(Arrowsmith Peninsula)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 67° 15' 4" S 67° 15' 42" W
extending N-S on Arrowsmith Peninsula, Loubet Coast, rising to c.2300 m at Gravier Peaks (q.v.), and including also Pryor Peak and Richardson Peak, were photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after John Tyndall (1820-93), physicist, mountaineer and pioneer glaciologist, author of works on glaciers and the physical properties of ice.