Read Mountains is a group of rocky summits, the highest
Holmes Summit
Holmes Summit is a peak rising to , the highest elevation in the Read Mountains of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967 and was surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey in the period 1968–7 ...
1,875 m,
SCAR Composite Gazetteer. Holmes Summit
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The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising at Holmes Summit to , it extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers.
The range was named after Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Br ...
. First mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to reach the South ...
and named for Professor Herbert H. Read, Chairman of the Scientific Committee
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and member of the Committee of Management of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–58.
Features
Geographical features include:
Du Toit Nunataks
Other features