Transantarctic Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Transantarctic Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
descriptive name for the sinuous chain of mountains extending from Oates Land (Australian Antarctic Territory) and N Victoria Land (Ross Dependency), along the W coast of Ross Sea and the W and S margins of Ross Ice Shelf, through Horlick Mountains, Thiel Mountains (Pacific sector) and Pensacola Mountains (q.v.) to the S margin of Filchner Ice Shelf in BAT. The mountains rise to 4530 m at Mount Kirkpatrick (Queen Alexandra Range, Ross Dependency) and divide Greater Antarctica (q.v.) from Lesser Antarctica (q.v.) ([including Shackleton Range and Theron Mountains] USBGN, 1962b, p.23; NGS map, 1963; [as defined above] APC, 1982, p.3; [including Shackleton Range] Drewry, 1983, Sheet2.1). Transantarctic Mountain System (USHO, 1963, p.312). Montagnes Transantarctiques (Cailleux, 1963, p.2). Trans Antarctic Mountains (Hamilton, 1964, p.676).
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