Clare Range
Mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica
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::summary Mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Clare Range |
| country | Antarctica |
| region_type | Region |
| region | Victoria Land |
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| map | Antarctica |
| label | Clare Range |
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| name=Clare Range | photo= | photo_caption= | country=Antarctica | country_type=Continent | region_type =Region | region=Victoria Land | parent= | border= | coordinates = | length_km= | length_note = | width_km= | width_note = | highest= | elevation_m= | elevation_note= | map = Antarctica | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = | label = Clare Range | label_position = | range_coordinates = | range_coordinates_note = | geology= | period=| orogeny= The Clare Range () is the range extending west-southwest from Sperm Bluff to the Willett Range on the south side of Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is south of the Convoy Range and north of the Olympus Range.
Exploration and name
The Clare Range was circumnavigated in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE; 1956–58), and named by them after Clare College, Cambridge, England.
Location
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier.jpg" caption="Clare Range in north of mapped region"] ::
The Clare Range runs in an east-northeast direction to the south of the Frazier Glacier and Mackay Glacier. The Willett Range is to its east. The head of the Webb Glacier and Victoria Upper Névé separate it from the Cruzen Range to the south. The eastern part of the range is north of the Saint Johns Range and Cotton Glacier.
Features
Named features, from southwest to northeast, include Vishniac Peak, Skew Peak, Parker Mesa, Dykes Peak, Heaphy Spur, Detour Nunatak and Sperm Bluff.
Vishniac Peak
Skew Peak
Springtail Point
Molnia Bluff
A steep bluff rising to 1750 m high and extending west–east for 1 nmi at the southeast end of Parker Mesa, Clare Range, Victoria Land. The elevation drops to 1350 m high at the foot of the bluff. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2005) after Bruce Franklin Molnia, United States Geological Survey (USGS) geologist who conducted seismic studies in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic marginal seas from R.V. Eltanin, 1965-66; Acting Executive Director of the Polar Research Board of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1985-87; Chief, International Polar Programs, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1987-2002; Research Geologist, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 2002-05.
Parker Mesa
Dykes Peak
Jatko Peak
A sharp-pointed peak, 2050 m high, 1.75 nmi northwest of Dykes Peak. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2007) after Joyce A. Jatko, Environmental Officer for the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, 1994--2003; United States representative to the SCAR Committee for Environmental Protection and Vice Chair of the Committee for two terms.
Heaphy Spur
Sperm Bluff
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-01-30 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19144 |name=Jatko Peak}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18752 |name=Molnia Bluff}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier.jpg |accessdate=2024-02-13 |title=Taylor Glacier |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref= }}
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