Commonwealth Range
| Commonwealth Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Flat Top ( 4000 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 15 ′ S , 172 ° 20 ′ E | |
| surface | 4,820 km² | |
 Map from 1965 with the Commonwealth Range in the center |
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The Commonwealth Range (German: Commonwealth chain ) is a mountain range around 144 kilometers in length in the Antarctic Queen Maud Mountains , which extends north-south along the eastern flank of the Beardmore Glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf to the confluence of the Keltie Glacier forms. The highest mountain in the chain is the Flat Top with a little over 4000 m . Other striking mountains are
- Mount Donaldson ( 3930 m ),
- Mount Macdonald ( 3630 m ),
- Mount Hermanson ( 3140 m ),
- Mount Deakin ( 2810 m ) and the
- Gray Peak ( 2570 m ).
The mountain range was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the Commonwealth of Australia to thank its government for supporting the expedition.
See also
Web links
- Commonwealth Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Commonwealth Range on peakbagger.com (English)
- Commonwealth Range on geographic.org (English)
- Commonwealth Range. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 90 (English)