Van Allen Range () is a range 14 nautical miles (26 km) long that includes
Escalade Peak Escalade Peak () is a prominent peak, high, about in the Van Allen Range, east of the south end of the Boomerang Range, in Victoria Land. It was so named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealt ...
(2035 m),
Tate Peak Tate Peak () is a sharp peak, 1,885 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Escalade Peak at the south side of Skelton Neve in the Van Allen Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1964 for Lieutenant T.N. Tat ...
and
Mount Marvel Mount Marvel () is a mountain, high, standing south of Escalade Peak in the Van Allen Range, near the head of Mulock Glacier in Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Commander R. Marvel, U.S. Navy, o ...
, located at the south margin of
Skelton Neve
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
Named after the Skelton Inlet by the New Zealand party of ...
between
Boomerang Range
The Boomerang Range, (at ), is a narrow mountain range on the western side of the Skelton Glacier and Skelton Névé, Antarctica. The range is curved like a boomerang, and extends generally north–south for about 25 km. It was mapped and name ...
and
Worcester Range
The Worcester Range is a mountain range in Antarctica standing between the Skelton and Mulock Glaciers on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Probably named after the training ship in the Thames, in which many officers of early British Antar ...
. It was named after
James A. Van Allen
James Alfred Van Allen (September 7, 1914August 9, 2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space.
The Van Allen radiation belts were named afte ...
, an American scientist and one of the original organizers of the
International Geophysical Year
The International Geophysical Year (IGY; french: Année géophysique internationale) was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific i ...
of 1957–58. He conducted ionospheric research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and is the discoverer of the
Van Allen radiation belts.
Mountain ranges of Oates Land
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