Convoy Range
Convoy Range (76°47′S 160°45′E) is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the range has a nearly flat plateau-like summit, extending south from the Fry Saddle and ending at Mackay Glacier. The range has steep cliffs on its east side, but it slopes gently into the Cambridge Glacier on the western side.
The New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) worked in this area in 1957. The party named the range for the main convoy into McMurdo Sound in the 1956–57 season, with the names of the various vessels being used for features in the range.
Features
Geographical features include:
- Alatna Valley
- Barnacle Valley
- Baxter Glacier
- Blorenge Buttress
- Bowsprit Moraine
- Bridge Riegel
- Cambridge Glacier
- Cargo Pond
- Chattahoochee Glacier
- Dory Nunatak
- Dotson Ridge
- Drifter Cirque
- Eastwind Ridge
- Elkhorn Ridge
- Flagship Mountain
- Flight Deck Névé
- Forecastle Summit
- Fry Glacier
- Gentle Glacier
- Glover Hills
- Greenville Hole
- Greenville Valley
- Holystone Slope
- Hopkins Nunataks
- Hurricane Heights
- Irving Glacier
- Larson Crag
- Lugger Glacier
- Mackay Glacier
- Mars Hills
- Matchless Mountain
- Merrell Valley
- Midship Glacier
- Mount Basurto
- Mount Gunn
- Mount Naab
- Mount Schmidtman
- Mount Shadbolt
- Noring Terrace
- Northwind Glacier
- Pascoe Glacier
- Riptide Cirque
- Rum Pond
- Schwall Peak
- Scudding Glacier
- Scuppers Icefalls
- Scuttle Valley
- Sharpend Glacier
- Slackwater Cirque
- Sore Thumb
- Staten Island Heights
- Sunker Nunataks
- Taff y Bryn
- Tigerstripe Ridge
- Tillergone Slope
- Toddy Pond
- Topside Glacier
- Tot Pond
- Towle Glacier
- Towle Valley
- Trinity Nunatak
- Voigt Ledge
- Wildwind Glacier
- Wyandot Ridge
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Convoy Range". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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