Kirkwood Range
| Kirkwood Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Endeavor ( 1810 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Albert Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 27 ′ S , 162 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Kirkwood Range is a mountain range of the Prince Albert Mountains on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends in a north-south orientation from the Fry Glacier to the Mawson Glacier . A low-lying plateau of the chain is occupied by the Oates-Piedmont Glacier .
The New Zealand crew part in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named her after Captain Henry W. Kirkwood (1910-1977) of the Royal Navy , skipper of the supply ship HMNZS Endeavor (formerly RRS John Biscoe ) as part of this research trip .
Web links
- Kirkwood Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kirkwood Range on geographic.org (English)
Kirkwood Range on the right edge of the map
Kirkwood Range on the left edge of the map
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 498 (English).
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 858 (English).