Willett Range
| Willett Range | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ S , 160 ° 25 ′ E | |
 Map of the western part of the Antarctic Dry Valleys from 1988, Willett Range on the ice edge north of the center |
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The Willett Range is a 32 km long mountain range in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It runs as the base of the polar plateau between Mistake Peak and the Mackay Glacier to the north and is broken through by some glaciers that flow off the polar plateau in an easterly direction.
It was named by the New Zealand land surveying group as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) after RW Willett, director of the New Zealand Geological Survey , who advised the expedition and helped with the processing of the survey results.
Web links
- Willett Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Willett Range on geographic.org (English).