Surveyors Range

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Mountain range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica

title: "Surveyors 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", "amundsen-coast"] description: "Mountain range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-the-ross-dependency" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyors_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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

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Location

Surveyors Range is 30 mi long, extending north along the east side of Starshot Glacier from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the Ross Ice Shelf. The Swithinbank Range is to the west, on the other side of the Starshot Glacier. The Dickey Glacier runs north along the east side of the range.

The range was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1960–61) for the early pioneering surveyors of New Zealand and present day equivalents in Great Britain who contributed to work carried out in this area by Captain P.J. Hunt, Royal Engineers.

Glaciers

Starshot Glacier

Main article: Starshot Glacier

Dickey Glacier

Main article: Dickey Glacier

Farmer Glacier

Main article: Farmer Glacier

Features

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/C81195s1_Ant.Map_Mount_Nares_Surveyors.jpg" caption="Surveyors Range"] ::

Geographical features include, from north to south:

Sapper Hill

Hermitage Peak

Mount Ubique

Heake Peak

Jones Buttress

Adams Peak

Peak, 1,540 m high, on the east side of Starshot Glacier, rising 2 mi south of Heale Peak in Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for C.W. Adams, one of the early New Zealand surveyors, who in 1883 established the Mount Cook (Wellington) latitude which became the fundamental- position for all N.Z. surveys up to 1949.

Mount Mathew

Mount Hotine

A peak 2 mi northeast of Mount McKerrow, in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for Brigadier Martin Hotine, British Director of Overseas Surveys at the time.

Mount McKerrow

A prominent mountain on the east side of Starshot Glacier, standing 5 mi north of Thompson Mountain in Surveyors Range. Discovered by the NZGSAE (1960-61) and named for James McKerrow, a former Surveyor General of New Zealand.

Centaur Bluff

Thompson Mountain

Nearby features

Howard-Williams Point

Brown Buttress

A wedge-shaped buttress rising to approximately 800 m, located near the head of Dickey Glacier, which flows into Beaumont Bay. It was named in honor of R F Brown, a member of the 1960 Cape Hallett winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

Bridge Pass

Bieber Bench

Mansergh Snowfield

Main article: Mansergh Snowfield

Mansergh Wall

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|id=18250 |name=Bieber Bench |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2|id=1928 |name=Bridge Pass |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2|id=18488 |name=Brown Buttress |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2|id=18491 |name=Farmer Glacier |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2|id=18496 |name=Howard-Williams Point |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2|id=18497 |name=Jones Buttress |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2|id=9358 |name=Mansergh Snowfield |type=antarid}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | id = 18293 |name = Mansergh Wall |type=antarid}}
  • {{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= }}

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