Central Masson Range
| Central Masson Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Dallice Peak ( 1089 m ) | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 50 ′ S , 62 ° 52 ′ E | |
The Central Masson Range is the middle of the three mountain ranges of the Masson Range in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson-Land . In the Framnes Mountains it rises up to 1120 m high and extends over a length of 6 km in a north-south orientation.
The Masson Range was discovered during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . The formation described here was mapped by Norwegian cartographers using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Norwegian name Mekammen (Norwegian for middle comb ) changed in 1960 the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for reasons of better description of the place in the current form.
Web links
- Central Masson Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Central Masson Range on geographic.org (English)