Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped

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range about long, in

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...

. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and

Debenham Glacier Wilson Piedmont Glacier () is a large piedmont glacier extending from Granite Harbour to Marble Point on the coast of Victoria Land. Scheuren Stream takes meltwater from the glacier into the Bay of Sails, while South Stream flows southeastward ...

s, and on the south by

Victoria Valley Victoria Valley is one of the larger McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. Lake Vida Lake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-r ...

and the Victoria Upper and Victoria Lower Glaciers. Its eastern end is formed by a spur called

Lizards Foot Lizards Foot () is a rocky spur forming the east end of the Saint Johns Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868& ...

. Named by the

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of the

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, 1956–58, which surveyed peaks in the range in 1957. Named for St. John's College at

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, with which several members of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) were associated during the writing of their scientific reports, and in association with the adjacent Gonville and Caius Range.

Kuivinen Ridge

Kuivinen Ridge () is a transverse ridge extending southwest–northeast across the Saint Johns Range between an unnamed glacier and the

Ringer Glacier Ringer Glacier () is a glacier, long, heading on the northeast flank of Saint Johns Range and flowing northeast to Miller Glacier, Victoria Land. Named in association with the distinctive ring-shaped moraine at its mouth, The Ringer (). The name f ...

. The ridge is long and rises to at Lanyon Peak. It was named by the

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in 2005 after ice coring specialist Karl C. Kuivinen,

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(UNL), 1974–2003; Field Operations Manager,

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Project Management Office, UNL, for the 1974–1978 season; Director, Polar Ice Coring Office, UNL, 1979-1989 and 1994–2001; 15 summer field seasons in Antarctica, between 1968 and 2000; and 24 summer field seasons in Greenland and Alaska between 1974 and 1999.

Lobeck Glacier

Lobeck Glacier () is a glacier flowing northeast between

Rutherford Ridge Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper Glacier, Victoria Upper and V ...

and

Kuivinen Ridge Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper and Victoria Lower Glacie ...

in the Saint Johns Range of

. About long, the glacier terminates upon rock cliffs overlooking

Miller Glacier Wilson Piedmont Glacier () is a large piedmont glacier extending from Granite Harbour to Marble Point on the coast of Victoria Land. Scheuren Stream takes meltwater from the glacier into the Bay of Sails, while South Stream flows southeastward to ...

with insignificant, if any, flow entering it. Named by the

in 2007 after the noted American geographer-geologist Armin K. Lobeck (1886-1958), Professor of Geology,

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, from 1929 to 1954; He was the author of the textbook ''Geomorphology'', widely used in training geomorphologists active in Antarctica.

Rutherford Ridge

Rutherford Ridge () is a transverse ridge, long, extending southwest to northeast across the Saint Johns Range between

Wheeler Valley Wheeler Valley () is the ice-free hanging valley on the southwest side of Miller Glacier, immediately east of Mount Mahony in Victoria Land. Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is p ...

and

Lobeck Glacier Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper and Victoria Lower Glaciers ...

. The ridge rises to in

Mount Rowland Mount Rowland () is a mountain with a sharp-pointed summit rising to in the central part of Rutmnherford Ridge, in the Saint Johns Range of Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after F. Sherwood Rowlan ...

. It was named by the

in 2007 after

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, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge (1871-1937), a winner of the

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for 1908. His researches in radiation and atomic structure were basic to the later 20th-century developments in

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. In 1997 the

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(IUPAC) formally designated the name

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for the new chemical element with the atomic number 104.

References

* * * Mountain ranges of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub