Nash Range

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Coastal range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica

title: "Nash Range" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountain-ranges-of-the-ross-dependency", "transantarctic-mountains", "shackleton-coast"] description: "Coastal range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-the-ross-dependency" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Coastal range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica ::

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Location

The Nash Range is 40 nautical miles (70 km) long, bordering the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between the Dickey and Nimrod Glaciers. The Dickey Glacier flows north into Beaumont Bay to the north of the range. To the south of Bridge Pass, the Algie Glacier flows south along the west edge of the range to enter Nimrod Glacier, which passes round the southern end of the range. The Holyoake Range lies to the southwest of the Nash Range. The Surveyors Range is to the northwest.

The range was named by the Ross Sea Committee for Walter Nash who, as Leader of the Opposition and later as Prime Minister of New Zealand, gave strong support to New Zealand participation in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58.

Topography

The Nash Range is composed of metagreywacke intruded by granite. It trends north-north-west from Cape Wilson in the south to Beaumont Bay in the north. The average height is about 4,500 ft. Mount Christmas is the highest peak, at 5608 ft. The west and east sides of the range have steep scarps, with granite cliffs 2000 to high, and sharp ridges spurs of metagreywackes along the coast.

Glaciers

Algie Glacier

Main article: Algie Glacier

Features

|caption=1:250,000 scale topographic maps of the Nash Range |align=right}} Geographical features from north to south include:

Lowe Peak

Mount Arcone

Mount Canopus

Mount Christmas

Ricker Dome

Smith Bluff

Ballard Spur

Babis Spur

Cape Wilson

Nearby features

Alligator Eyes

Cape May

A high rock cape along the west side of Ross Ice Shelf, 8 mi southeast of Cape Laird. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) and named for Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Henry May, Lord of the Admiralty and Controller of the Navy, 1901-05. Not: Cape William Henry May, May Point.

Bridge Pass

Jacobs Peninsula

Powell Hill

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}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18246 |name = Alligator Eyes}}
  • {{citation |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288306.1963.10422076 |accessdate=2023-12-16 |last=Laird |first=M. G.|year=1963 |title=Geomorphology and stratigraphy of the nimrod glacier–beaumont bay region, Southern Victoria land, Antarctica, |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=465–484 |doi=10.1080/00288306.1963.10422076|doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18500 |name = Lowe Peak| accessdate = 2013-07-05}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18247 |name = Mount Arcone| accessdate = 2023-12-16}}
  • {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C81195s1_Ant.Map_Mount_Nares.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-14 |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |title=Mount Nares|year=1960 |ref= }}
  • {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C82195s1_Ant.Map_Nimrod_Glacier.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-16 |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |title=Nimrod Glacier |year=1960 |ref= }}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18287 |name = Jacobs Peninsula | accessdate = 2012-07-13}}

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