David Range
| David Range | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 54 ′ S , 62 ° 30 ′ E | |
The David Range is a mountain range running parallel to and 8 km from the Masson Range in the Framnes Mountains in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It extends over a length of 26 km in a north-northeast-south-southwest orientation with peaks of up to 1500 m height.
It was discovered on February 14, 1931 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named them after his mentor Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934).
Web links
- David Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- David Range on geographic.org (English)