Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in
Antarctica. Much of the range has a nearly flat plateau-like summit, extending south from the
Fry Saddle Fry Saddle () is a narrow ice saddle at the head of Fry Glacier
Fry Glacier () is a glacier draining the slopes at the northeast corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the south end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land, Antarct ...
and ending at
Mackay Glacier. The range has steep cliffs on its east side, but it slopes gently into the
on the western side.
The New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) worked in this area in 1957. The party named the range for the main
convoy into
McMurdo Sound in the 1956–57 season, with the names of the various vessels being used for features in the range.
Features
Taff Y Bryn () is a ridgelike summit capped by dolerite (about 1,600 m), situated 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of
Flagship Mountain in the Convoy Range. It is named after the
River Taff in Wales, the toponym in Welsh literally means "Hill of the Taff." It was named by the 1976–77
Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) led by
Christopher J. Burgess
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει ...
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Other geographical features include:
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Alatna Valley
Alatna Valley (sometimes incorrectly spelled ''Atlanta Valley'') is an ice-free valley lying 4 miles (6 km) north of Mount Gran and trending east-northeast for about 10 miles (16 km) along the southeast side of the Convoy Range. It is o ...
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Barnacle Valley Barnacle Valley () is an ice-free valley west-southwest of Dotson Ridge in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land
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Baxter Glacier
Baxter Glacier () is a glacier nurtured by icefalls from Flight Deck Neve, flowing northeast between Flagship Mountain and Mount Davidson to enter Fry Glacier, in Convoy Range, Victoria Land. It was named by a 1976–77 Victoria University of ...
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Blorenge Buttress Blorenge Buttress () is a prominent, orange-colored pillar of sandstone, west of the summit of Flagship Mountain at the west end of the Viking Hills, Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The pillar is flanked to the west by steep blue ice and a huge wi ...
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Bowsprit Moraine Bowsprit Moraine () is a medial moraine, long, off the northeast point of Elkhorn Ridge, where Towle Glacier and Northwind Glacier join Fry Glacier, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. It is one of a group of nautical names in Convoy Range: the ma ...
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Bridge Riegel Bridge Riegel () is a flat-topped rock ridge on the north side of Greenville Valley, immediately above Greenville Hole, in the Convoy Range
Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the range has a nearly flat plateau-like su ...
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Cargo Pond Cargo Pond () is a pond in a moraine enclosed basin at the foot of the cliffs to the south end of Alatna Valley, in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. This frozen pond was the site of a 1960–61 United States Antarctic Research Program field party ...
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Chattahoochee Glacier Chattahoochee Glacier () is a glacier in the Convoy Range which flows northeast between Wyandot Ridge and Eastwind Ridge. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from Navy air photos, and named by the Advisory Co ...
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Dory Nunatak
Dory Nunatak () is an isolated sandstone nunatak, 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km) long, rising above the southwest part of Flight Deck Neve, 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) southwest of Dotson Ridge, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. One of a g ...
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Dotson Ridge
Dotson Ridge () is a ridgelike nunatak, 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) long, rising to in the northwest part of Flight Deck Neve, Convoy Range. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos, and was n ...
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Drifter Cirque Drifter Cirque () is a cirque between Mount Schmidtman and Mount Naab at the northeast end of Eastwind Ridge in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Iceflow from Eastwind Ridge is insufficient to carry surficial moraine away into Fry Glacier and morai ...
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Eastwind Ridge
Eastwind Ridge () is a broad, partially ice-covered ridge about long between Chattahoochee Glacier and Towle Glacier in the Convoy Range of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos, ...
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Elkhorn Ridge
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Flagship Mountain
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Flight Deck Névé Flight Deck Névé () is an elevated and unusually flat glacier névé, about , between Flagship Mountain and Mount Razorback in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The feature is the primary source of ice to the east-flowing Benson Glaci ...
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Forecastle Summit
Forecastle Summit () is, at , the highest mountain summit in the northern part of the Staten Island Heights, with a rounded top that gives a commanding view of Fry Glacier and Benson Glacier, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land
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Fry Glacier
Fry Glacier () is a glacier draining the slopes at the northeast corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the south end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition ...
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Gentle Glacier Gentle Glacier () is a small glacier lobe, to the east and immediately below Forecastle Summit, which drains south into deglaciated Barnacle Valley in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Though a part of the Northwind Glacier – Fry Gl ...
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Glover Hills The Glover Hills () are prominent hills separating Atka Glacier and Baxter Glacier in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were named by the 1976–77 Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, led by Christopher J. Burge ...
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Greenville Hole Greenville Hole () is a circular depression, deep, in the center of Greenville Valley, Convoy Range, 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 ...
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Greenville Valley Greenville Valley () is the large mainly ice-free valley lying south of Elkhorn Ridge in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. A lobe of the Northwind Glacier flows a short distance west into the mouth of the valley. Near the head of the va ...
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Holystone Slope Holystone Slope () is a glacial slope distributary from Flight Deck Névé, wide, that descends northwest over subdued steps between Dotson Ridge and Dory Nunatak in the Convoy Range
Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of ...
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Hopkins Nunataks
Mackay Glacier () is a large glacier in Victoria Land, descending eastward from the Antarctic polar plateau, between the Convoy Range and Clare Range, into the southern part of Granite Harbour. It was discovered by the South Magnetic Pole part ...
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Hurricane Heights The Hurricane Heights () are the irregular, mainly ice-free heights which rise to about at the south side of the head of Towle Valley, in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name was applied by a 1989–90 New Zealand Antarctic Rese ...
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Irving Glacier
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Larson Crag
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Lugger Glacier
Alatna Valley (sometimes incorrectly spelled ''Atlanta Valley'') is an ice-free valley lying 4 miles (6 km) north of Mount Gran and trending east-northeast for about 10 miles (16 km) along the southeast side of the Convoy Range. It is ...
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Mackay Glacier
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Mars Hills
Flagship Mountain () is a prominent, conical rock peak, high, surmounting the southern part of the large rock mass between Northwind Glacier and Atka Glacier in the Convoy Range
Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the ...
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Matchless Mountain
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Merrell Valley
Merrell Valley is a valley in the Convoy Range of Antarctica.
It is officially described as:
A long, narrow ice-free valley in the Convoy Range, running north from its head immediately east of Mount Gunn into the Greenville Valley. Mapped in 1957 ...
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Midship Glacier
Midship Glacier () is a broad flat glacier filling the bulk of Alatna Valley and having its origin on the slopes of Mount Morrison (Victoria Land), Mount Morrison to the south, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. From 1957 this ice body ...
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Mount Basurto
Staten Island Heights () is a predominantly flat, ice-covered upland between the Greenville and Alatna Valleys in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and Navy air photos. Named b ...
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Mount Gunn
Mount Gunn () is a very large mountain, high, standing in the Convoy Range about northwest of Mount Gran in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was photographed in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expe ...
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Mount Naab
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Mount Schmidtman
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Mount Shadbolt
Mount Shadbolt is the highest summit (2,270 m) in the north part of Convoy Range, Victoria Land, standing at the north side of the head of Towle Valley. Named by the 1976–77 Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), l ...
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Noring Terrace
Staten Island Heights () is a predominantly flat, ice-covered upland between the Greenville and Alatna Valleys in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and Navy air photos. Named by ...
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Northwind Glacier
Northwind Glacier () is a large Antarctic glacier; one of the major sources of the Fry Glacier, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The glacier drains the west part of Flight Deck Neve and flows north between Elkhorn Ridge and Sunker Nunataks to F ...
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Pascoe Glacier
Pascoe Glacier () is a cirque glacier, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long, which flows into Greenville Valley from the north end of Staten Island Heights, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The name was applied by geologist Christopher J. Bur ...
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Riptide Cirque
Eastwind Ridge () is a broad, partially ice-covered ridge about long between Chattahoochee Glacier and Towle Glacier in the Convoy Range of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos, ...
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Rum Pond
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Schwall Peak
Staten Island Heights () is a predominantly flat, ice-covered upland between the Greenville and Alatna Valleys in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and Navy air photos. Named b ...
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Scudding Glacier
Alatna Valley (sometimes incorrectly spelled ''Atlanta Valley'') is an ice-free valley lying 4 miles (6 km) north of Mount Gran and trending east-northeast for about 10 miles (16 km) along the southeast side of the Convoy Range. It is o ...
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Scuppers Icefalls Scuppers Icefalls () is a prominent line of icefalls, 5 nautical miles (9 km) long and nearly 400 m high, between Mount Razorback and Mount Nespelen in Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The icefalls are the main outflow draining from Flight Deck Ne ...
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Scuttle Valley
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Sharpend Glacier
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Slackwater Cirque
Eastwind Ridge () is a broad, partially ice-covered ridge about long between Chattahoochee Glacier and Towle Glacier in the Convoy Range of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos, ...
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Sore Thumb
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Staten Island Heights
Staten Island Heights () is a predominantly flat, ice-covered upland between the Greenville and Alatna Valleys in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and Navy air photos. Named by ...
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Sunker Nunataks
Sunker Nunataks () is a group of small, rounded nunataks rising through the ice on the east side of Northwind Glacier, similar in appearance to a reef at sea, in the Convoy Range
Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the ...
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Tigerstripe Ridge
Flagship Mountain () is a prominent, conical rock peak, high, surmounting the southern part of the large rock mass between Northwind Glacier and Atka Glacier in the Convoy Range
Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the ...
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Tillergone Slope
Fry Glacier () is a glacier draining the slopes at the northeast corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the south end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1 ...
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Toddy Pond
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Topside Glacier Topside Glacier () is a cirque glacier, 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, descending the south wall of Elkhorn Ridge in Greenville Valley, Convoy Range, Victoria Land
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Tot Pond
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Towle Glacier Towle Glacier () is a glacier in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, draining northeast between Eastwind and Elkhorn Ridges into the Fry Glacier. It was first mapped in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarcti ...
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Towle Valley Towle Valley () is the deep valley formerly occupied by the head of Towle Glacier, lying immediately west of Towle Glacier in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Mapped in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antar ...
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Trinity Nunatak
Mawson Glacier () is a large glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau to the north of Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter the Ross Sea, where it forms the Nordenskjöld Ice ...
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Voigt Ledge Voigt Ledge () is a flat-topped ridge that rises to between the head of Greenville Valley and Merrell Valley in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. The relatively level upper surface of the ledge is long by wide, tapering in the north. It stands ...
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Wildwind Glacier
Wildwind Glacier is a substantial mountain glacier in Antarctica, 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide, which flows southward into Alatna Valley, draining both the Staten Island Heights and Mount Razorback areas, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Lan ...
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Wyandot Ridge Wyandot Ridge () is a rocky ridge at the west side of Chattahoochee Glacier. It extends northward from the northwest end of the Convoy Range. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and Navy air photos. It wa ...
References
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Mountain ranges of Victoria Land
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