North Masson Range
| North Masson Range | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 47 ′ S , 62 ° 49 ′ E | |
The North Masson Range is the northern of the three mountain ranges of the Masson Range in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . In the Framnes Mountains it rises up to 1030 m high and extends over a length of 5 km in a north-south orientation. A prominent mountain is the 710 m high Painted Peak .
The Masson Range was discovered during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . The formation described here was mapped by Norwegian cartographers using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . In 1960 the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA ) changed the Norwegian designation as Nordkammen (Norwegian for North Ridge ) to its current form for reasons of better location description.
Web links
- North Masson Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- North Masson Range on geographic.org (English)