Dominion Range

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title: "Dominion Range" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["queen-maud-mountains", "dufek-coast"] description: "Mountain range in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/queen-maud-mountains" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Mountain range in Antarctica ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox mountain"]

Field	Value
map	Antarctica
country_type	Continent
country	Antarctica
region	Ross Dependency
range_coordinates
range	Queen Maud Mountains
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| name = | other_name = | photo = | photo_alt = | photo_caption = | map = Antarctica | label = | country_type = Continent | country = Antarctica | region = Ross Dependency | range_coordinates = | range = Queen Maud Mountains The Dominion Range () is a broad mountain range, about 30 nmi long, forming a prominent salient at the juncture of the Beardmore and Mill glaciers in Antarctica. The range is part of the Queen Maud Mountains The range was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 and named by Ernest Shackleton for the Dominion of New Zealand, which generously aided the expedition.

Location

Plunket Point, at the northern tip of the Meyer Desert, is the northernmost point of the range, where the Mill Glacier to the east of the range converges with the Beardmore Glacier to the west. The Rutkowski Glacier forms to the west of the Meyer Desert and flows south past Mount mills. The Koski Glacier flows east past the Kane Rocks to the south and Browns Butte to the north into Mill Glacier. The Vandament Glacier is south of the Kane Rocks and west of Safety Spur. The south of the range includes Mount Saunders, Mount Nimrod and Mount Tennent. The Davis Nunataks and Mount Ward are to the south of the range.

The Polar Subglacial Basin lies between the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains and the Dominion Range.

Key geographical features

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/USGS_map_of_Plunket_Point.jpg" caption="Southern Supports Range northwest of map"] ::

Features, from north to south, include:

Plunket Point

Meyer Desert

Main article: Meyer Desert

Rutkowski Glacier

Mount Mills

Kane Rocks

Browns Butte

Vandament Glacier

Safety Spur

Mount Saunders

Mount Nimrod

Mount Tennent

Davis Nunataks

Mount Ward

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 |url=https://data.pgc.umn.edu/maps/antarctica/usgs/03/pdf/Plunket%20Point.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-25 |title=Plunket Point |publisher=USGS |ref= }}

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