Surveyors Range () is a long mountain range in the

Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains is a major range of mountains and associated elevations bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. They are south of the Britannia Range and north of the Geologists Range, ...

of Antarctica.

Location

Surveyors Range is long, extending north along the east side of Starshot Glacier from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between high ...

. The Swithinbank Range 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

surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the ...

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,

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

Farmer Glacier

. A

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

flowing north west into Starshot Glacier, and located between Mount McKerrow to the north and Thompson Mountain to the south, at the southern end of the Surveyors Range in Antarctica. It was named in honor of D. W. Farmer, a member of the 1960

Cape Hallett Cape Hallett is a snow-free area (Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north. History In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was damag ...

winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

Features

Geographical features include, from north to south:

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.

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 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."

Heake 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 Theophilus Heale (1816–1885) was a 19th-century British Pākehā settler, later a Member of Parliament from Auckland, New Zealand. Biography Heale was the captain part-owner of one of the first British migrant ships to arrive in Wellingt ...

of New Zealand, an early exponent of the use of triangulation in survey (1868), and later Inspector of Survey for New Zealand.

Jones Buttress

. A wedge-shaped feature similar to and north of Brown Buttress, where it juts out from the east side of Surveyors Range into

. It was named in honor of L. R. Jones, a member of the 1959

winter-over team, working as a scientific officer on the geomagnetic project.

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.

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

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 ...

, British Director of Overseas Surveys at the time.

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 ...

, a former Surveyor General of New Zealand.

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.

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.

Nearby features

Howard-Williams Point

. A prominent point extending into the

, located just north of Beaumont Bay, north east of the Surveyors Range. It was named in honor of Clive Howard-Williams, an ecologist who led several research events in the

McMurdo Dry Valleys The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely Antarctic oasis, snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ...

, Darwin Glacier, and Bratina Island areas from 1984 onwards. Howard-Williams was an

Antarctica New Zealand Antarctica New Zealand is an agency set up by the Government of New Zealand to manage its interests in Antarctica and the Ross Sea. As well as providing logistics support to a large scientific programme, it also runs bases such as Scott Base. ...

Board member 1996–2000, and provided considerable input to international Antarctic science and environmental management, including development of a McMurdo Dry Valleys

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. He went on to become the

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(SCAR) delegate for New Zealand and also one of the four SCAR Vice-Presidents.

Brown Buttress

A wedge-shaped buttress rising to approximately , located near the head of

, which flows into Beaumont Bay. It was named in honor of R F Brown, a member of the 1960

winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

Bridge Pass

. A high pass between Surveyors Range and Nash Range, at the upper reaches of

and Algie Glacier, affording a passage from the Nimrod Glacier region to Beaumont Bay. It was named by the

(1960–61) for Captain Lawrence D. Bridge, Royal New Zealand Engineers, leader at

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from November 1960 to February 1961.

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 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

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), a branch of the National Science Foundation. The station is ...

and

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, 1988–2002.

Mansergh Snowfield

. A

snowfield A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain. Glaciers originate in snowfields. The lower end of a glacier is usually free from ...

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feeding the central portion of Starshot Glacier, separating the Surveyors Range and Holyoake Range. It was seen by the Holyoake, Cobham and Queen Elizabeth Ranges party of the

(1964–65) and named for G. Mansergh, a geologist with the party.

Mansergh Wall

. An ice-covered cliff, long, running east–west between Mansergh Snowfield and the head of Errant Glacier in the

of Antarctica. The cliff rises to over and forms part of the divide between the north–flowing Starshot Glacier system, which includes Mansergh Snowfield, and the Nimrod Glacier system, which includes the south–flowing Errant Glacier. It was named by the

in association with Mansergh Snowfield.

References

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