Findlay Range
Mountain range in Antarctica
title: "Findlay Range" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountains-of-victoria-land", "pennell-coast"] description: "Mountain range in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountains-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findlay_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 |
| label | Findlay Range |
| region | Victoria Land, Antarctica |
| country | Antarctica |
| country_type | Continent |
| range_coordinates | |
| :: |
| name= | photo= | photo_caption= | native_name= | map=Antarctica | label=Findlay Range | map_caption= | region=Victoria Land, Antarctica | region_type = | country=Antarctica | country_type=Continent | parent= | border= | geology= | period= | orogeny= | highest= | elevation_ft= | range_coordinates = The Findlay Range is a range lying parallel to and west of Lyttelton Range, extending between Grigg Peak and Sorensen Peak.
Exploration and naming
The Findlay Range was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) after Robert H. Findlay, geologist, New Zealand Antarctic Division, DSIR; leader of a New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) geological party to this area, 1981-82.
Location
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/C71192s1_Ant.Map_Ebbe_Glacier.jpg" caption="Findlay Range (not marked to north of center of map, southeast from Robinson Heights"] ::
The Findlay Range is in the Admiralty Mountains to the southeast of the Robinson Heights. The Lyttelton Range is to the east and the Homerun Range to the west. Features of the Finlay Range include Grigg Peak, Mount Pittard, Mount Granholm and the Gadsden Peaks.
Features
Grigg Peak
Mount Bierle
Mount Pittard
Mount Granholm
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Granholm.png" caption="Granholm upon return from Antarctica, 1968" alt="Granholm, upon return from Antarctica, 1968"] ::
Splettstoesser Pass
Gadsden Peaks
Sorensen Peak
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-03-06 |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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C71192s1_Ant.Map_Ebbe_Glacier.jpg |accessdate=2024-03-07 |title=Ebbe Glacier |publisher=USGS: United States Geographic Board |ref= }}
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