West Quartzite Range

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title: "West Quartzite 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 ranges of Victoria Land" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Quartzite_Range" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Mountain ranges of Victoria Land ::

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Field	Value
map	Antarctica
label	West Quartzite Range
region	Victoria Land, Antarctica
country	Antarctica
country_type	Continent
range_coordinates
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| name= | photo= | photo_caption= | native_name= | map=Antarctica | label=West Quartzite Range | map_caption= | region=Victoria Land, Antarctica | region_type = | country=Antarctica | country_type=Continent | parent= | border= | geology= | period= | orogeny= | highest= | elevation_ft= | range_coordinates = West Quartzite Range () is a range, the western of two parallel quartzite ranges, situated at the east side of Houliston Glacier in the Concord Mountains, Antarctica. It was named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition (NZFMCAE), 1962–63, after the distinctive geological formation of the feature.

Location

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/C71195s1_Ant.Map_Mount_Soza.jpg" caption="Terrain north of West Quartzite Range"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/C72193s5_Ant.Map_Freyberg_Mountains.jpg" caption="West Quartzite Range east of center in north of map"] ::

The West Quartzite Range is part of the Concord Mountains. The range runs northwest–southeast, parallel to the East Quartzite Range to the east. The Houliston Glacier to its west separates it from the Neall Massif and Jago Nunataks. The Salamander Range of the Freyberg Mountains is further to the west. The line of the range extends towards the Destination Nunataks to the southeast. The Black Glacier lies to the north of the Leitch Massif, the northern end of the range.

Features

Leitch Massif

Cornerpost Peak

Gothic Peak

Lavallee Peak

Gibraltar Peak

Main article: Gibraltar Peak

Nearby features

Neall Massif

Jago Nunataks

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}}
• {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C72193s5_Ant.Map_Freyberg_Mountains.jpg |accessdate=2024-03-04 |title=Freyberg Mountains |publisher=USGS: United States Geographic Board |ref= }}
• {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C71195s1_Ant.Map_Mount_Soza.jpg |accessdate=2024-02-04 |title=Mount Soza |publisher=USGS: United States Geographic Board |ref= }}

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