Schwartz Range
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 8 ′ S , 55 ° 38 ′ E | |
The Schwartz Range is a mountain range with northeast-southwest orientation in the East Antarctic Kempland . It rises 27 km southwest of Edward VIII Bay .
The Australian geologist Robert George Dovers (1921–1981) and his French companion Georges Schwartz (* 1920) discovered the mountain range in 1954 on their dog sledding trip to Edward VIII Bay as part of a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after Schwartz on November 28, 1955.
Web links
- Schwartz Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schwartz Range on geographic.org (English).