Leckie Range
| Leckie Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Cook ( 1900 m ) | |
| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 55 ′ S , 56 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Leckie Range is a mountain range in the East Antarctic Kempland . It rises 80 km south of Edward VIII Bay .
The individual peaks of this mountain range are included in maps of the Norwegian whaling fleet from 1947. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Douglas Walter Leckie (* 1920), flight squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air Force and commander for flight logistics between RAAF Base Williams and Mawson Station in 1956.
Web links
- Leckie Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leckie Range on geographic.org (English).