The Carey Range () is a mountain range, about long and wide with peaks rising to , between

Mosby Glacier New Bedford Inlet () is a large pouch-shaped, ice-filled embayment between Cape Kidson and Cape Brooks, along the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location New Bedford Inlet is on the Lassiter Coast of southern Palmer Land, opening ont ...

and Fenton Glacier in southeast

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, Antarctica.

Location

The Carey Range is in south-central

. The

Wegener Range Wegener Range () is a mountain range with peaks rising to , trending west-northwest – east-soitheast for about between Maury Glacier and Fenton Glacier in southeast Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Wegener Range is in eastern Palmer ...

is to the north and the

Dana Mountains The Dana Mountains () are a group of mountains just northwest of New Bedford Inlet, bounded by Mosby Glacier on the north and Haines Glacier and Meinardus Glacier on the south, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Dana Mountains are in so ...

to the south. It is bounded by the Fenton Glacier to the northeast and the

to the southwest. Features include the Sverdrup Nunataks to the north and Mount Adkins in the south. The Journal Peaks are to the west.

Mapping and name

The Carey Range was mapped by the

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(USGS) from

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aerial photographs, 1966–69. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, it was named by the United States

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US.ACAN) after Samuel W. Carey, Australian geologist and Professor of Geology at the

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, 1946–1970.

Features

Sverdrup Nunataks

. A line of peaks trending WNW-ESE and rising to high in the northwest part of Carey Range, near the edge of the interior plateau in southeast Palmer Land. Mapped by the USGS from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy, 1966-69. In association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named by the

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(UK-APC) in 1977 after Harald U. Sverdrup (1888-1957), Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist; Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1936-48; Director, Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1948-57, and Chairman of the International Committee for the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52.

Mount Adkins

. Mountain surmounting the north flank of Mosby Glacier just west of the mouth of Fenton Glacier. Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1961-67. Named by US-ACAN for Thomas Adkins, cook with the Palmer Station winter party in 1965.

Journal Peaks

. Two groups of separated peaks and nunataks which trend east–west for about . They rise southeast of the Seward Mountains in central Palmer Land. Mapped by USGS from United States Navy aerial photography, 1966-69. Named by US-ACAN after the Antarctic Journal of the United States, established 1966, a publication of the Division of Polar Programs,

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, reporting on the U.S. Antarctic Research Program and related activities.

References

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