The Findlay Range is a range lying parallel to and west of

Lyttelton Range The Lyttelton Range () is a narrow northwest-trending mountain range located south of Dunedin Range in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. The range is long and forms the western wall of the upper part of the Dennistoun Glacier. Exploration ...

, extending between Grigg Peak and Sorensen Peak.

Exploration and naming

The Findlay Range was named by the

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board pl ...

(NZ-APC) after Robert H. Findlay, geologist, New Zealand Antarctic Division, DSIR; leader of a

New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme The New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) was a research programme that operated a permanent research facility in Antarctica from 1959 to 1996. It was created by the Geophysics Division of New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Indu ...

(NZARP) geological party to this area, 1981-82.

Location

The Findlay Range is in the

Admiralty Mountains The Admiralty Mountains (alternatively Admiralty Range) is a large group of high mountains and individually named ranges and ridges in northeastern Victoria Land, Antarctica. This mountain group is bounded by the sea (Ross Sea and Southern Ocean) ...

to the southeast of the

Robinson Heights Robinson Heights in Antarctica () are the mainly ice-covered heights , elliptical in plan and long, which rise south of Anare Pass and form the northwest end of the Admiralty Mountains, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The Robinson Heights w ...

. The

is to the east and the

Homerun Range The Homerun Range () is a northwest-trending range, long and wide, east of Everett Range at the heads of the Ebbe Glacier and Tucker Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The name of the Homerun Range derives from "H ...

to the west. Features of the Finlay Range include Grigg Peak, Mount Pittard, Mount Granholm and the Gadsden Peaks.

Features

Grigg Peak

. A peak high located west of the north tip of Lyttelton Range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Gordon C. Grigg, USARP biologist at McMurdo Station, 1966-67.

Mount Bierle

- A mountain high rising north of Mount Granholm. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Donald A. Bierle, USARP biologist at McMurdo Station, 1966-67 and 1967-68.

Mount Pittard

. Pointed mountain high standing east of the north part of Homerun Range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photography, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Donald A. Pittard, USARP biologist at McMurdo Station, 1966-67 and 1967-68.

Mount Granholm

. A mountain high southeast of Mount Pittard. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Nels H. Granholm, USARP biologist at Hallett Station, 1967-68.

Splettstoesser Pass

. A snow-covered pass at about high, running east–west through Findlay Range to the northwest of Gadsden Peaks. The name was proposed by R.H. Findlay, leader of a NZARP geological party, 1981-82, which used this pass in travel between Field Névé and Atkinson Glacier, a tributary to

Dennistoun Glacier The Dennistoun Glacier () is a glacier, long, draining the northern slopes of Mount Black Prince, Mount Royalist and Mount Adam in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It flows northwest between the Lyttelton Range and Dune ...

. Named after John F. Splettstoesser, geologist, Minnesota Geological Survey, who was field coordinator for USARP projects during the International Northern Victoria Land Project, 1981-82.

Gadsden Peaks

. A line of northeast-trending peaks on a ridge, long. They rise over high and stand west-southwest of

Lange Peak The Lyttelton Range () is a narrow northwest-trending mountain range located south of Dunedin Range in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. The range is long and forms the western wall of the upper part of the Dennistoun Glacier. Explorati ...

of Lyttelton Range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Michael Gadsden, radioscience researcher at McMurdo Station, 1965-66 and 1967-68.

Sorensen Peak

. A peak high which rises between the base of Lyttelton Range and Church Ridge. It surmounts the divide between the Dennistoun and Leander Glaciers. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Douglas J. Sorensen, field assistant at McMurdo Station, 1965-66.

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