South Masson Range
| South Masson Range | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 53 ′ S , 62 ° 47 ′ E | |
The South Masson Range is the southern of the three mountain ranges of the Masson Range in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Framnes Mountains it rises up to 1070 m high and extends over a length of 3 km in a northeast-southwest arc.
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 . The Norwegian name Sørkammen (Norwegian for south ridge ) changed in 1960 the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for reasons of a better place description in the current form.
Web links
- South Masson Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- South Masson Range on geographic.org (English)