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Warren Range () is an Antarctic mountain range about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long just west of Boomerang Range, 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" 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 * Mount Guyon * Mount Ritchie *
Skelton Icefalls 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. Naming and exploration Skelton Glacier was named after the Skelton Inlet by ...
* Wise Peak Nearby features are: * Hamner Nunatak * Mount Darbyshire Mountain ranges of Oates Land {{OatesLand-geo-stub