The Daniels Range is a principal

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

of the

Usarp Mountains The Usarp Mountains are a major Antarctic mountain range, lying west of the Rennick Glacier and trending north to south for about . The feature is bounded to the north by Pryor Glacier and the Wilson Hills. These mountains were discovered and ...

, about 80 km (50 mi) long and 16 km (10 mi) wide, bounded to the north by

Harlin Glacier Harlin Glacier () is a broad sweeping glacier that descends from the Antarctic polar plateau in the vicinity of Mount Nero on the northwest side of the Daniels Range, Victoria Land. It flows northeast between the Sample Nunataks and the north end ...

and to the south by

Gressitt Glacier Rennick Glacier is broad glacier, nearly long, which is one of the largest in Antarctica. It rises on the polar plateau westward of Mesa Range and is wide, narrowing to near the coast. It takes its name from Rennick Bay where the glacier reache ...

. The range was mapped by

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from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63. Named by US-ACAN after Ambassador Paul C. Daniels (1903–86), a leading American figure in the formulation of the

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in 1959. In the southern part of Daniels Range is

Bounty Nunatak Bounty Nunatak () is a prominent, largely ice-free nunatak, high, located southeast of Mount Burnham in the southern part of the Daniels Range, Usarp Mountains The Usarp Mountains are a major Antarctic mountain range, lying west of the Renni ...

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Daniels Range area map

Daniels Range current weather
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Daniels Range historic weather data
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