Quarles Range
| Quarles Range | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 36 ′ S , 164 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Quarles Range is a high and rugged mountain range in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It stretches from the polar plateau between the Cooper and Bowman Glaciers in the Queen Maud Mountains to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
Some peaks of the mountain range were sighted in 1911 by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen during his South Pole expedition (1910–1912). A detailed mapping was carried out during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain range in 1966 after the American politician Donald A. Quarles (1894-1959), United States Secretary of the Air Force from 1955 to 1957 and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1957 to 1959.
Web links
- Quarles Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quarles Range on geographic.org (English)
West part in the southeast part of the map
Eastern part in the middle of the western edge of the map
