Cruzen Range
| Cruzen Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Vashka Crag ( 1600 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ S , 161 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Cruzen Range is a mountain range up to 1,600 m high in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies to the west-east between the Salyer Ledge and the Nickell Peak in the Antarctic Dry Valleys area . It is bounded by the Clare Range , the Victoria Valley , the Barwick Valley and the Webb Glacier .
It was discovered during an aerial reconnaissance flight as part of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) on February 20, 1947 by Commander William Michael Hawkes (1910-1994) and his copilot and navigator, Lieutenant Commander Herbert Lee Salyer Jr. (1916-1999). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountains in 2005 after Rear Admiral Richard Harold Cruzen (1897-1970) of the United States Navy , commander of Task Force 68 in Operation Highjump.
Web links
- Cruzen Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cruzen Range on geographic.org (English)