Shackleton Range
The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising at Holmes Summit to, it extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers.
The range was named after Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–16.Surveys
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which in 1956 saw the range from the air, conducted a ground-level survey of its western part in 1957. The United States Navy photographed the range from the air in 1967. In 1968–69 and 1969–70, the British Antarctic Survey conducted further ground surveys with support from US Navy C-130 Hercules aircraft.Geology
The Haskard Group and Turnpike Bluff Group rest unconformably on the Archean-Middle Proterozoic Shackleton Range Metamorphic Complex. The Ordovician-Early Devonian Blaiklock Glacier Group also unconformably overlies the Shackleton Range Metamorphic Complex. This group is composed of sandstones and conglomerates, and is unconformably overlain by the Beacon Supergroup.Features
Geographical features include:Herbert Mountains
Read Mountains
Other features
Other features
