Mount Avers (76°29′S 145°21′W / 76.483°S 145.350°W / -76.483; -145.350) is a mountain 2 miles (3 km) north of Mount Ferranto in the Fosdick Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. It was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition and named for Henry G. Avers, chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, who was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that Commander (later Rear Admiral) Richard E. Byrd had by airplane reached the North Pole in 1926 and the South Pole in 1929.

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