Surveyors Range () is a long mountain range in the

Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. Seve ...

of Antarctica.

Location

Surveyors Range is long, extending north along the east side of

Starshot Glacier Starshot Glacier () is a glacier 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So ...

from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the

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. The

Swithinbank Range Swithinbank Range () is a small range from the Churchill Mountains, Location The Swithinbank Range extends eastward between Donnally and Ahern Glaciers to the west side of Starshot Glacier. It faces the Surveyors Range on the east side of the S ...

is to the west, on the other side of the Starshot Glacier. The

Dickey Glacier Dickey Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing north along the east side of the Surveyors Range to enter Beaumont Bay, Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain Willie M. Dickey, U.S. Navy, commander of ...

runs north along the east side of the range. The range was named by the

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(NZGSAE) (1960–61) for the early pioneering

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s of

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and present day equivalents in

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who contributed to work carried out in this area by Captain P.J. Hunt,

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Glaciers

Starshot Glacier

. A glacier long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) because the area was surveyed with the use of star observations.

Dickey Glacier

. A glacier long, flowing north along the east side of the Surveyors Range to enter

Beaumont Bay Beaumont Bay () is an ice-filled reentrant on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Young Head and Harris Point, into which Dickey Glacier flows. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Admiral ...

. Named by US-ACAN for Capt. Willie M. Dickey, USN, commander, Naval Support Units, Antarctica, at Little America V, winter 1957.

Features

Geographical features include:

Adams Peak

Peak, high, on the east side of Starshot Glacier, rising south of Heale Peak in Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for C.W. Adams, one of the early New Zealand surveyors, who in 1883 established the Mount Cook (Wellington) latitude which became the fundamental- position for all N.Z. surveys up to 1949.

Centaur Bluff

. A steep bluff on the east side of Surveyors Range, west of Mount Canopus. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) after the star Centauri, which was frequently used to fix survey stations.

Heale Peak

- A rock peak, high, at the east side of Starshot Glacier, north of Adams Peak in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for Theophilus Heale of New Zealand, an early exponent of the use of triangulation in survey (1868), and later Inspector of Survey for New Zealand.

Hermitage Peak

. A peak, high, standing north of Mount Ubique, in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for the Military School of Surveying in England.

Mount Hotine

A peak northeast of Mount McKerrow, in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for Brigadier

Martin Hotine Brigadier Martin Hotine CMG CBE (17 June 1898 – 12 November 1968) was the head of the Trigonometrical and Levelling Division of the Ordnance Survey responsible for the 26-year-long retriangulation of Great Britain (1936–1962) and was the f ...

, British Director of Overseas Surveys at the time.

Mount Mathew

. A peak, high, standing at the east side of Starshot Glacier, north of Mount Hotine, in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for

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, the first Surveyor General of New Zealand, in 1840. Not: Mount Mathews.

Mount McKerrow

A prominent mountain on the east side of Starshot Glacier, standing north of Thompson Mountain in Surveyors Range. Discovered by the NZGSAE (1960-61) and named for

James McKerrow James McKerrow FRAS (7 July 1834 – 29 June 1919) was an astronomer, Surveyor-General of New Zealand, and Chief Commissioner of Railways in New Zealand. McKerrow was the son of Andrew McKerrow and Margaret (''née'' Steven) his wife, and was b ...

, a former Surveyor General of New Zealand.

Sapper Hill

. An ice-covered hill northeast of Hermitage Peak, in the northern part of Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61), in association with nearby Mount Ubique, for the Royal Engineers.

Thompson Mountain

. A mountain, high, standing south of Mount McKerrow in the southwest part of Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for Edgar H. Thompson, Professor of Surveying and Photogrammetry at the University College of London, England. Not: Mount Thompson.

Mount Ubique

. A peak, high, standing south of Hermitage Peak in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for the Royal Engineer's motto, meaning "everywhere."

Bieber Bench

. A relatively horizontal upland area of at the south side of the Surveyors Range, Churchill Mountains. The ice-covered feature rises to between

Mansergh Snowfield Starshot Glacier () is a glacier 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So n ...

and the head of Algie Glacier. It was named by the

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after John W. Bieber of the

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: he was

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principal investigator for solar and heliospheric studies with Antarctic cosmic ray observations at

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and

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, 1988–2002.

Others

Bridge Pass, Farmer Glacier,

Howard-Williams Point Howard-Williams Point () is a prominent point extending into the Ross Ice Shelf, located just north of Beaumont Bay, north east of the Surveyors Range, Antarctica. It was named in honor of Clive Howard-Williams, an ecologist who led several rese ...

, Jones Buttress,

References

Sources

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