Insel 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 | Asgard Range |
| country | Antarctica |
| region_type | Region |
| region | Victoria Land |
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| width_km | |
| map | Antarctica |
| label | Asgard Range |
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| geology | |
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| name=Asgard 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 = Asgard Range | label_position = | range_coordinates = | range_coordinates_note = | geology= | period=| orogeny= The Insel Range () is a series of ice-free flat-topped peaks resembling islands which rise above the surrounding terrain and separate McKelvey Valley from Balham Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE, 1958–59) because of the resemblance to islands.
Location
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier.jpg" caption="Insel Range north of center of mapped region"] ::
The Insel Range is separated from the Olympus Range to the south by the McKelvey Valley. To the north it is separated from the Apocalypse Peaks by the Balham Valley, and from the Clare Range by the Barwick Valley. To the northeast it is separated from the Saint Johns Range by the Victoria Valley. The highest point in the range is Mount Insel.
Features
Mount Insel
Bullseye Lake
Green Mesa
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Green_and_Canfield_Mesas_ASTER.jpg" caption="Satellite view of Green and Canfield Mesas 2009"] ::
An ice-free mesa of 1 nmi extent, located 0.9 nmi west-southwest of Canfield Mesa in the west part of Insel Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after William J. Green, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, who from the 1968-69 season made studies of lakes and streams in Taylor Valley and Wright Valley, including a geochemical analysis of the Onyx River and Lake Vanda with Donald E. Canfield (Canfield Mesa) in 1980-81, 1986-87, and 1987-88; co-editor (with E. Imre Friedmann) of Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Antarctic Lakes, Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 59, American Geophysical Union, 1993.
Canfield Mesa
An ice-free mesa of 0.8 nmi extent, located 0.9 nmi east-northeast of Green Mesa in the west part of Insel Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Donald E. Canfield, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, who made a geochemical analysis of the Onyx River and Lake Vanda with William J. Green (Green Mesa) in the 1980-81, 1986-87, and 1987-88 field seasons.
Halzen Mesa
An oblong islandlike mesa, 5 nmi long and rising to 1345 m, that is the largest and eastmost of three mesas in the Insel Range. The upper surface is relatively level but the periphery is marked by abrupt cliffs that rise 500 to high above the floor of Barwick Valley and McKelvey Valley. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2005) after Francis Halzen, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, who (1988) conceived of AMANDA, the Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; United States Antarctic Project (United States ArmyP) principal investigator in a project to build the “IceCube” neutrino telescope at the South Pole Station in six field seasons beginning 2004-05.
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=17471 |name=Canfield Mesa}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17377 |name=Green Mesa}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18739 |name=Halzen Mesa}}
- {{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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