Carey Range
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 56 ′ S , 62 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Carey Range is a 56 km long, 8 km wide and up to 1700 m high mountain range in the southeastern Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It looms between the Mosby Glacier and the Fenton Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountains using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1979 after the Australian geologist Samuel Warren Carey (1911–2002), an early proponent of the theory the continental drift .
Web links
- Carey Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carey Range on geographic.org (English)