Peck Range

Peck Range
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
part of	Du Toit Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 20 ′ S , 62 ° 40 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 20 ′ S , 62 ° 40 ′ W

The Peck Range is an 18 km long and 10 km wide high mountain range of mountains , ridges and hills near the Black Coast in the southeastern Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is north-south in the western part of the Du Toit Mountains . The formations, which are up to 1700 m high, are bounded in the south by a high field of snow , in the east and west by previously unnamed glaciers that flow together at the northern end of the mountain range and south of Mount Wever .

The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain range using its own measurements and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. A team from the United States Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey mapped it again between 1986 and 1987. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1989 after the US geologist and volcanologist Dallas Lynn Peck (1929-2005), 11th director of the United States Geological Survey from 1981 to 1983. The foundation of the mountain range consists practically entirely of coarse granular material , young and granitic batholith .

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