Endeavour Massif

Endeavour Massif (coord|76|33|S|162|2|E|) is a huge, flat-topped massif on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land. The massif extends south from Pa Tio Tio Gap to Fry Glacier and forms the south block of the Kirkwood Range (Robertson Massif forms the north block). Shoulder Mountain, Mount Belgrave and Mount Creak rise from the south part of the massif. Steep coastal cliffs and projecting ridges mark the east margin, but there is a gentle slope west from the massif's broad, plateaulike snow summit. This feature was originally named Mount Endeavour by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in October 1957, but on subsequent New Zealand and U.S. maps the name is identified as an 1800 m summit 3.5 miles (6 km) northwest of Mount Creak. Following additional mapping by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1999 and consultation between Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) and New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB), the name of the south block of Kirkwood Range was amended to Endeavour Massif to provide terminology better suited to the complex nature of the feature. For the sake of historical continuity the name Mount Endeavour has been retained for the summit northwest of Mount Creak. Both features are named after HMNZS "Endeavour" (formerly "John Biscoe"), supply ship to the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party.