The Masson Range is a high broken chain of mountains, consisting primarily of the North Masson, Central Masson and South Masson Ranges and the Trilling Peaks, forming a part of the Framnes Mountains. Having several peaks over , the range extends in a north–south direction for . It was discovered and charted by the

British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...

, 1929–31, under Douglas Mawson, and named for Professor Sir David Orme Masson, a member of the Advisory Committee for this expedition as well as the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, also under Mawson. The mountains were first visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions party led by

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in 1956.

* Damien Gildea,
Mountaineering in Antarctica: complete guide: Travel guide
' * B. A. Marmo, J. Dawson,
Movement and structural features observed in ice masses, Framnes Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land, East Antarctica
', Annals of Glaciology, Volume 23 1996, pp. 388–395, Cambridge University Press, 20 January 2017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3189/S0260305500013689 * Mackintosh, Andrew & White, Duanne & Fink, David & Gore, Damian & Pickard, John & Fanning, Patricia. (2007),
Exposure ages from mountain dipsticks in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica, indicate little change in ice-sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum
', Geology. 35. https://doi.org/10.1130/G23503A.1.

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Mountain ranges of Mac. Robertson Land {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub

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