Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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: Range
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:
The relatively contiguous system of mountains and ranges between Cape Adare and Coats Land. From the southeast of Ross Iceshelf at Amundsen Coast, the Horlick Mountains, Thiel Mountains, Pensacola Mountains, Shackleton Range, and Theron Mountains at Filchner Ice Shelf are included in the extent, and form the division between East Antarctica and West Antarctica.
Agreed by NZ-APNC in 1965 in concurrence with United States Advisory Committee on Antarctica Names' (US-ACAN) recommendation in 1962. The name is a useful concept geographically and geologically, though isn't truly 'transantarctic'.
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