Cobham Range
Mountain range in Antarctica
title: "Cobham Range" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountain-ranges-of-oates-land", "transantarctic-mountains"] description: "Mountain range in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-oates-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobham_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Mountain range in Antarctica ::
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| photo | File:A Close-up of Gargoyle Ridge in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (30877661116).jpg |
| photo_caption | Gargoyle Ridge (foreground) as seen on November 11, 2016, by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry |
| map | Antarctica |
| highest_location | Lyttelton Peak |
| elevation_m | 2,335 |
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| location | Antarctica |
| country_type | Continent |
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| region | Ross Dependency |
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Location
The Cobham Range trends in a northwest–southeast direction for about 20 nmi in the southern part of the Churchill Mountains of the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. The Prince Philip Glacier runs south down the east side of the Cobham Range, and the Lucy Glacier runs southeast down the west side. They both feed the Nimrod Glacier, which flows to the northeast past the south end of the range. The Holyoake Range is east of the Cobham Range on the east side of the Prince Philip Glacier. The Queen Elizabeth Range is south of the Cobham Range on the south side of the Nimrod Glacier.
Early exploration and naming
The Cobham Range was mapped by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1961–62, and named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for a former Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Cobham.
Geology
The range gives its name to the "Cobham Formation". This is a sequence of interlayered quartzite, marble and schist of the albite-epidote hornfels facies. It is conformably overlain by greywacke and argillite of the Goldie Formation. The Cobham Formation crops out in the south-west portion of the Cobham Range as a strip about 2 - wide extending from west of Mount Kopere south to Gargoyle Ridge.
Features
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/C82195s1_Ant.Map_Nimrod_Glacier_Cobham_Range.jpg" caption="Cobham Range and surroundings"] ::
Geographical features from north to south include:
Frustration Ridge
Schroeder Peak
Mount Kopere
Lyttelton Peak
Tarakanov Ridge
Gray Glacier
Gargoyle Ridge
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Gargoyle_Ridge_in_the_McMurdo_Dry_Valleys_in_Antarctica_(30877661786).jpg" caption="Gargoyle Ridge on November 11, 2016. Image taken by helicopter. Wright Valley visible behind the ridge."] ::
Nearby features
Nearby features include:
Olson Névé
Main article: Olson Névé
Chappell Nunataks
Main article: Chappell Nunataks
Turret Nunatak
Half Dome Nunatak
Main article: Half Dome Nunatak
Kon-Tiki Nunatak
Main article: Kon-Tiki Nunatak
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
- {{citation |title=Geology of the Central Nimrod Glacier area, Antarctica |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |last1=Laird |first1=M. G |first2=G. D. |last2=Mansergh |first3=J. M. A. |last3=Chappell |year=1971|volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=427–468 |doi=10.1080/00288306.1971.10421939 }}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C83165s1_Ant.Map_Mount_Rabot.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-12 |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |title=Nimrod Glacier|year=1960 |ref= }}
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