The Deep Freeze Range () is a rugged

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

, over long and about wide, rising between Priestley and Campbell Glaciers in

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 southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

, and extending from the edge of the polar plateau to Terra Nova Bay. Peaks in the low and mid portions of the range were observed by early British expeditions to the

Ross Sea The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who vi ...

. The range was mapped in detail by the

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(USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955-63. It was named by the

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in recognition of the support to research provided by the U.S. Navy's

Operation Deep Freeze Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...

expeditions to Antarctica for many years beginning in 1954. __NOTOC__

Geological features

Mount Adamson

Mount Adamson () is a peak, high, rising east-northeast of Mount Hewson. It was named by the northern party of

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Features named by the expeditions 195 ...

(NZGSAE), 1965–66, for R. Adamson, a

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with this party.

Mount Dickason

Mount Dickason () is a prominent mountain, high, at the head of Boomerang Glacier. It was first mapped by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named for Harry Dickason, Royal Navy, a member of the Northern Party.

Mount Hewson

Mount Hewson () is a bluff-type mountain () standing WSW of Mount Adamson. It was named by the southern party of NZGSAE, 1962–63, for R.W. Hewson, leader and surveyor of this party; also a surveyor for the northern party of NZGSAE, 1961-62.

Mount Queensland

Mount Queensland () is a prominent

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, high, standing north of Mount Dickason. It was discovered by the ''Discovery'' Expedition, 1901–04, which named this mountain for the state of

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, Australia, in recognition of the assistance given the expedition by its government.

Shafer Peak

Shafer Peak () is a prominent peak, high, standing south of Mount Hewson. It was mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955-63. It was named by the

for Lieutenant Cdt. Willard G. Shafer, (CEC) U.S. Navy, officer in charge of the nuclear power plant at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Un ...

, winter party 1965.

Cape Sastrugi

Cape Sastrugi Cape Sastrugi () is a sharply projecting point on the west side of Deep Freeze Range, standing 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) northwest of Snowy Point The Deep Freeze Range () is a rugged mountain range, over long and about wide, rising bet ...

projects from the west side of the range, overlooking the north portion of Nansen Ice Sheet.

Glaciers

Rebuff Glacier

Rebuff Glacier Rebuff Glacier () is a tributary glacier descending from the Deep Freeze Range and entering Campbell Glacier Campbell Glacier () is a glacier, about long, originating near the south end of Mesa Range and draining southeast between the Deep Freeze ...

is a tributary glacier which descends from the Deep Freeze Range before entering

Campbell Glacier Campbell Glacier () is a glacier, about long, originating near the south end of Mesa Range and draining southeast between the Deep Freeze Range and Mount Melbourne to discharge into north Terra Nova Bay. The lower end of the glacier was observed ...

References

{{reflist Mountain ranges of Victoria Land