Clare Range

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Clare Range
View from Wright Valley to the Clare Range (background)

View from Wright Valley to the Clare Range (background)

location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of Transantarctic Mountains
Clare Range (Antarctica)
Clare Range
Coordinates 77 ° 10 ′  S , 161 ° 10 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 10 ′  S , 161 ° 10 ′  E
Map of the western part of the Antarctic Dry Valleys from 1988, in the north the Clare Range

Map of the western part of the Antarctic Dry Valleys from 1988, in the north the Clare Range

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The Clare Range is a mountain range in the Antarctic Victoria Land , which extends south of the Mackay Glacier in a west-southwest direction from Sperm Bluff to the Willett Range .

It was circled in 1957 by a New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) and named after Clare College at the University of Cambridge .

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