What American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration name Mount Harkness after Bruce Harkness?
Richard E. Byrd Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by air. However, his claim to have reached the North Pole is disputed.
Mount Birks Mount Birks ( ) is a conspicuous, pyramid-shaped mountain rising to 1,035 m in Austa Ridge on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, and surmounting Spillane Fjord to the south and Veselie Glacier to the north. In 1928 Sir Hubert Wilkins gave the name Mount Napier Birks, after Napier Birks of Adelaide, Australia, to two conspicuous, black peaks which he observed and photographed from the air as lying close north of his Crane Channel. This coast was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947, but it has not been possible to identify Wilkins' Mount Napier Birks. Since Crane Channel was definitely identified as Crane Glacier, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) recommended in 1950 that the name, shortened to Mount Birks, be given to this conspicuous mountain lying close north of the mouth of the glacier.