Name details

Convoy Range

Convoy Range (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Convoy Range  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113041

Feature type: Range (2c)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A broad range, much of it with an almost flat, plateau-like summit, extending south from the Fry Saddle, forming the western boundary of Fry drainage, and ending at the Mackay Glacier. The range is steeply cliffed along almost the whole of its eastern side, but on the west for the most part slopes gently into the Cambridge Glacier, except at the northern end where steep slopes descend to ice of the Mawson drainage. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MC07

Named For

The Northern Survey Party of the New Zealand Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956-58, worked in this area in October-December 1957. Named by them after the main convoy into McMurdo Sound in the 1956-57 season, the names of various vessels being used for features at the foot of the range.

Location

Latitude:
76° 47' 00.0" S
-76.78333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 45' 00.0" E
160.75000°
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Altitude:
1495 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MC07 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-Jul-1959

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