Saint Johns Range

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Mountain range in Antarctica

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

::summary Mountain range in Antarctica ::

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| name=Saint Johns 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 = Saint Johns Range | label_position = | range_coordinates = | range_coordinates_note = | geology= | period=| orogeny= Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about 20 nmi long, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton Glacier, Miller Glacier and Debenham Glacier, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper Glacier and Victoria Lower Glacier.

Name

Saint Johns Range was named by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), 1956–58, which surveyed peaks in the range in 1957. Named for St John's College, Cambridge, England, with which several members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 were associated during the writing of their scientific reports, and in association with the adjacent Gonville and Caius Range.

Location

Saint Johns Range is bounded to the west by the Victoria Upper Glacier and the Victoria Valley, which runs in a south-southeast direction to Lake Vida. Below Lake Vida the Victoria Valley turns to an east-northeast direction. It is filled by the Victoria Lower Glacier in its lower end, which flows into the Wilson Piedmont Glacier, lying along the west coast of the Ross Sea. The Victoria Valley separates Saint Johns Range from the Cruzen Range to the west and the Olympus Range to the south. The north of the range is separated from the Clare Range by the Cotton Glacier. The Miller Glacier defines the northeast side of the range, flowing into the Debenham Glacier, which defines the north side of the southern arm of the range and terminates in the Wilson Piedmont Glacier. The Gonville and Caius Range is to the north of the Debenham Glacier.

Northwest features

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier.jpg" caption="West part of Saint Johns Range in north east"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier_Saint_Johns.jpg" caption="West part of the Saint Johns Range"] ::

Features from the northern tip of Saint Johns Range south to Broady Valley are, from north to south: Marchetti Glacier, Gargoyle Turrets, Helicopter Mountains, Mount Mahony, Wheeler Valley, Rutherford Ridge, Mount Rowland, Lobeck Glacier, Kuivinen Ridge, Mount Lewis, Watson Valley, Lanyon Peak and Broady Valley.

Marchetti Glacier

Gargoyle Turrets

Helicopter Mountains

Main article: Helicopter Mountains

Mount Mahony

Wheeler Valley

Rutherford Ridge

A transverse ridge, 5.5 nmi long, extending southwest–northeast across Saint Johns Range between Wheeler Valley and Lobeck Glacier. The ridge rises to 1550 m in Mount Rowland. Named by US-ACAN (2007) after Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge (1871-1937), British physicist of New Zealand birth and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1908. His researches in radiation and atomic structure were basic to the later 20th-century developments in nuclear physics.

Mount Rowland

Lobeck Glacier

Kuivinen Ridge

A transverse ridge extending southwest–northeast across St. Johns Range between an unnamed glacier and the Ringer Glacier. The ridge is 5 nmi long and rises to 1750 m high at Lanyon Peak. Named by US-ACAN (2005) after ice coring specialist Karl C. Kuivinen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 1974-2003; Field Operations Manager, Ross Ice Shelf Project Management Office, UNL, 1974-78; Director, Polar Ice Coring Office, UNL, 1979-89 and 1994-2001; 15 summer field seasons in Antarctica, 1968-2000; 24 summer field seasons in Greenland and Alaska 1974-99.

Mount Lewis

Watson Valley

Lanyon Peak

Broady Valley

Central Features

Features from Spain Peak east to Dahe Glacier are, from west to east, Spain Peak, Anu Whakatoro Glacier, Tūkeri Peak, Fenwick Glacier, Ringer Valley, Ringer Glacier, Templeton Peak, Mount Swinford, Stone Ridge, Wise Ridge and Dahe Glacier.

Spain Peak

Anu Whakatoro Glacier

Tūkeri Peak

Fenwick Glacier

Mount Majerus

Ringer Valley

Ringer Glacier

Templeton Peak

Mount Swinford

Stone Ridge

Dahe Glacier

Wise Ridge

Southern Features

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/C77190s1_Ant.Map_Ross_Island.jpg" caption="East part of Saint Johns Range in north west"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/C77190s1_Ant.Map_Ross_Island_Saint_Johns.jpg" caption="East part of the Saint Johns Range"] ::

Features from Morse Spur to Pond Peak are, from west to east, Morse Spur, Crawford Valley, Bowser Valley, Mautino Peak, Schist Peak, Mount Harker, Purgatory Peak, Mayeswki Peak and Pond Peak.

Morse Spur

Crawford Valley

Bowser Valley

Mautino Peak

Schist Peak

A peak, 1,650 m high, surmounting the divide between the Willis and Packard Glaciers in the Saint Johns Range of Victoria Land. Named by the VUWAE (1959-60) for the rock type of which it is composed.

Mount Harker

Purgatory Peak

Mayewski Peak

Pond Peak

Eastern features

Features to the east of Pond Peak are: McWhinnie Peak, Mount Evans, Mount Bevilacqua, Sechrist Ridge and Lizard Foot-

McWhinnie Peak

Mount Evans

Mount Bevilacqua

Sechrist Ridge

Lizards Foot

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=18778 |name=Anu Whakatoro Glacier}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18733 |name=Dahe Glacier}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18784 |name=Fenwick Glacier}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18746 |name=Kuivinen Ridge}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19146 |name=Lobeck Glacier}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19148 |name=Marchetti Glacier}}
  • {{citation |url=https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=136185 |accessdate=2024-02-22 |title=Mount Majerus |publisher=AADC: Australian Antarctic Data Centre |ref= }}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17304 |name=Ringer Glacier}}
  • {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C77190s1_Ant.Map_Ross_Island.jpg |accessdate=2024-02-13 |title=Ross Island |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref= }}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19154 |name=Rutherford Ridge}}
  • {{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= }}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18728 |name=Bowser Valley}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18779 |name=Broady Valley}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18731 |name=Crawford Valley}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19135 |name=Gargoyle Turrets}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19138 |name=Helicopter Mountains}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18753 |name=Morse Spur}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19127 |name=Mount Bevilacqua}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19145 |name=Mount Lewis}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19153 |name=Mount Rowland}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18759 |name=Ringer Valley}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19155 |name=Sechrist Ridge}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18762 |name=Spain Peak}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18763 |name=Stone Ridge}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18793 |name=Templeton Peak}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18795 |name=Tūkeri Peak}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=19158 |name=Watson Valley}}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18769 |name=Wise Ridge}}

References

  1. https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=139580

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