Mount Joyce

Mount Joyce (-75.6°N, 160.81667°W) is a prominent, dome-shaped mountain, 1,830 m high, standing 8 nmi northwest of Mount Howard in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

Exploration and name
Mount Joyce was first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, which named it for Ernest Joyce who was in charge of general stores, dogs, sledges, and zoological collections with the expedition and who had earlier been with the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Joyce was also with the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17.

Location
Mount Joyce is south of David Cauldron in the David Glacier and east of Hollingsworth Glacier. The Ricker Hills lie to the west. Nearby features include Burrage Dome to the northeast, Mount Mallis, Mount Howard, Mount Billing and Mount Bowen to the southeast, and Crash Nunatak and Ford Peak to the southwest.

Geology
Mount Joyce, along with nearby nunataks, such as the Trio Nunataks, represents the remnants of a tableland of the Jurassic Ferrar Group, which consists of Kirkpatrick lavas and Ferrar dolerite sills, alternating with rafts of sandstone of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Beacon Supergroup. The strata dip about 1-2 degrees (at most) to the west. On Mount Joyce only three major dolerite sills are observed, with two thin interleaving seams of Beacon sediments.

Burrage Dome
-75.55°N, 161.08333°W. A mainly ice-covered dome, 840 m high, standing 4 nmi northeast of the summit of Mount Joyce. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-62. Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Roy E. Burrage, Jr., construction mechanic with the South Pole Station winter party, 1966.

Mount Mallis
-75.66667°N, 160.8°W. A mountain, 1,360 m high, midway between Mount Joyce and Mount Billing in the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-62. Named by US-ACAN for Robert R. Mallis, geomagnetist/seismologist with the South Pole Station winter party, 1966.

Mount Howard
-75.66667°N, 161.26667°W. A dark, rounded mountain, 1,460 m high, standing 8 nmi southeast of Mount Joyce. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE), 1901-04, which named it for Lord Howard de Walden who assisted Captain Robert Falcon Scott in his experiments with sledges.

Mount Billing
-75.71667°N, 160.9°W. A wedge-shaped mountain, 1,420 m high, standing between Mount Mallis and Mount Bowen. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Graham Billing, public relations officer at Scott Base, 1962-63 and 1963-64 seasons.

Mount Bowen
-75.75°N, 161.05°W. A mountain of stratified sandstone capped by a sharp black peak, 1,875 m high, standing 6 nmi southwest of Mount Howard. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, which named it for the Honorable C.C. Bowen, one of the men who gave the expedition much assistance in New Zealand.

Crash Nunatak
-75.78333°N, 160.63333°W. An isolated nunatak between Beta Peak and Mount Bowen. Named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1962-63, because the nunatak lies close to the scene of the United States Navy R4D plane crash of November 25, 1962.

Ford Peak
-75.71667°N, 160.45°W. A rock peak, 1,830 m high, standing 6.5 nmi west of Mount Billing. Named by the Southern Party of NZGSAE, 1962-63, for M.R.J. Ford, asst. surveyor with that party, who had wintered over at Scott Base in 1962.