Shackleton Range

The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising at Holmes Summit to 1,875 metres (6,152 ft), it extends in an east–west direction for about 160 kilometres (99 mi) between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers.[1]

Shackelton Range
The Shackleton Range, just out of the ice sheet between Slessor and Recovery glaciers.
Highest point
Elevation1,875 m (6,152 ft) 
Geography
Shackelton Range
Location in Antarctica

The range was named after Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (or "Shackleton's Expedition") of 1914–16.[1]

Surveys

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), which in 1956 saw the range from the air, conducted a ground-level survey of its western part in 1957. The United States Navy photographed the range from the air in 1967. In 1968–69 and 1969–70, the British Antarctic Survey (based at Halley Station) conducted further ground surveys with support from US Navy C-130 Hercules aircraft.[1]

Geology

The Haskard Group and Turnpike Bluff Group rest unconformably on the Archean-Middle Proterozoic Shackleton Range Metamorphic Complex. The Ordovician-Early Devonian Blaiklock Glacier Group (475 Ma) also unconformably overlies the Shackleton Range Metamorphic Complex. This group is composed of sandstones and conglomerates, and is unconformably overlain by the Beacon Supergroup.[2]

Features

Geographical features include:

Herbert Mountains
Main article: Herbert Mountains

Read Mountains
Main article: Read Mountains

Du Toit Nunataks

Other features

La Grange Nunataks
Main article: La Grange Nunataks

Other features

References
  1. "Shackleton Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2004-10-31.
  2. Laird, M.G. (1991). Thomson, M.R.A.; Crame, J.A.; Thomson, J.W. (eds.). Lower-mid-Palaeozoic sedimentation and tectonic patterns on the palaeo-Pacific margin of Antarctica, in Geological Evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 178–179. ISBN 9780521372664.


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