Eisenhower Range
Eisenhower Range | ||
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Highest peak | Timber Peak ( 3070 m ) | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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Coordinates | 74 ° 15 ′ S , 162 ° 15 ′ E | |
Eisenhower Range on the western edge of the map |
The Eisenhower Range is an imposing and up to 3,070 m high mountain range in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends over a length of around 80 km between the Reeves Firnfeld in the west , the Reeves Glacier in the south and the Priestley Glacier in the north and east. Its peaks are flattened, sloping slowly towards the Reeves Firnfeld, but steeply towards the Priestley Glacier and as sharp-edged rock spurs .
The first sighting of the mountain range is unproven; Due to its exposed location, it was probably already seen by James Clark Ross , who was the first to visit the region during his Antarctic expedition (1839–1843). It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1955 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after US President Dwight D. Eisenhower , during whose tenure the first expeditions of the operation were made Deep Freeze took place.
Web links
- Eisenhower Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eisenhower Range on geographic.org (English)