Lewis Chain
| Lewis Chain | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 23 ′ S , 26 ° 50 ′ W | |
The Lewis Chain is a mountain range made up of four rocky nunatak cores in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range, it rises on the western flank of the Gordon Glacier .
Participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs mapped it in 1957. The United States Navy took aerial photographs in 1967. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1974 after squadron leader John Harding Lewis (1922-1990) of the Royal Air Force , who had belonged as a pilot to the British Air Force in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition from 1956 to 1958.
Web links
- Lewis Chain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewis Chain on geographic.org (English)