Morozumi Range

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title: "Morozumi Range" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountain-ranges-of-victoria-land", "pennell-coast"] description: "Mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morozumi_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica ::

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photo_caption	Processing an alluvial fan in the range, 20 January 2016
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Early exploration and name

The Morozumi Range was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and United States Navy air photos in 1960–63. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Henry M. Morozumi, an aurora scientist at South Pole Station in 1960, and Station Scientific Leader at Byrd Station in 1963.

Geology

The Morozumi Range is in the Rennick Graben, separated by the Rennick Faults from the Wilson Group rocks of the USARP mountains. Basement rocks are low-grade metasedimentary rocks that include greywacke-shale. The northern end holds the Adamellite Massif, a pluton of Granite Harbour Intrusives.

Glaciers

Gressitt Glacier

Main article: Gressitt Glacier

Rennick Glacier

Main article: Rennick Glacier

The Rennick Glacier flows north between the east side of the Morozumi Range and the west side of the Lanterman Range.

Features

|caption=1:250,000 scale topographic maps of the Morozumi Range |align=right}} Features from north to south are:

Graduation Ridge

El Pulgar

Mount Twomey

Sickle Nunatak

Berg Peak

Jupiter Amphitheatre

Mount Van Veen

DeGoes Cliff

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Nicole_am_DeGose_Cliff_II_(24789762145).jpg" caption="DeGoes Cliff 3 February 2016"] ::

Paine Ridge

References

Sources

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