Hughes Range
| Hughes Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Kaplan ( 4230 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 30 ′ S , 175 ° 30 ′ E | |
 Map of the northwest Queen Maud Mountains from 1965, Hughes Range east of the Commonwealth Range |
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The Hughes Range is a 72 km long and massive mountain range in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it extends east of the Canyon Glacier from the confluence of the Brandau and Keltie Glaciers in the south to the Giovinco Piedmont Glacier in the north. It consists of six exposed mountain peaks , of which Mount Kaplan is the highest at 4230 m .
He was discovered by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd during the flight to the South Pole on November 29, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain range in 1962 at Byrd's request after Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), US Secretary of State and later presiding judge at the United States Supreme Court , who had advised Byrd.
Web links
- Hughes Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hughes Range on geographic.org (English).