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Warren Range () is an Antarctic mountain range about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long just west of
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 ...
, with which it lies parallel, in
Oates Land Oates Land is a region of Antarctica. It is variously defined as a portion of the East Antarctica near the coast stretching along and inland from the Oates Coast (see map) and as an officially delineated wedge-shaped segment of the Australian A ...
. Discovered by the Northern Survey Party of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to reach the South ...
(1956–58), which called the highest summit "
Mount Warren Mount Warren () is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is the third peak in the range and the fourth tallest in Wyoming. The summit is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest and rises ...
" after Guyon Warren, a member of the party in 1957–58. To avoid confusion with another
mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
of the same name, the name Warren has instead been applied to the whole rang


Features

Geographical features include: *
Deception Glacier Mulock Glacier in Antarctica is a heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.USGS Mount Discovery map sheet ST 57-60/10 It was named by the New Zealand Antarc ...
* Mount Guyon *
Mount Ritchie Mount Ritchie () is a mountain rising over 1600 m in the southeast part of Warren Range, Antarctica. The feature is northeast of Wise Peak on the west side of Deception Glacier. Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedi ...
* Skelton Icefalls *
Wise Peak Wise Peak () is a small peak (1,580 m) marking the south end of Warren Range in Oates Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Keith A.J. Wise, biologist working out of the McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a U ...
Nearby features are: *
Hamner Nunatak Hamner Nunatak () is a nunatak lying west of the Warren Range, Antarctica, west-northwest of Wise Peak. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Karl C. Hamner, a biologist at McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a ...
* Mount Darbyshire Mountain ranges of Oates Land {{OatesLand-geo-stub