Britannia Range (Antarctica)
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox mountain The Britannia Range (Template:Coord) is a range of mountains bounded by the Hatherton Glacier and Darwin Glacier on the north and the Byrd Glacier on the south, westward of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.Template:Sfn
Exploration and naming
The Britannia Range was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Robert Falcon Scott. It was named after HMS Britannia, a vessel utilized as the Britannia Royal Naval College in England, which had been attended by several officers of Scott's expedition.Template:Sfn
Location
Template:Geogroup Template:Image frame Template:Image frame The Britannia Range is east of the Antarctic Plateau. It is south of the Darwin Mountains and the Cook Mountains, which are north of the Hatherton Glacier and the Darwin Glacier. At the mouth of the Darwin Glacier the range adjoins the Gawn Ice Piedmont, which extends into the Ross Ice Shelf to the east. The Byrd Glacier flows northeast past the south side of the Gawn Ice Piedmont. It divides the Britannia Range from the Churchill Mountains to the south.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Major glaciers
- Hatherton Glacier (Template:Coord), a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau generally eastward along the south side of the Darwin Mountains and entering Darwin Glacier at Junction Spur.Template:Sfn
- Darwin Glacier (Template:Coord), a large glacier in Antarctica. It flows from the polar plateau eastward between the Darwin Mountains and the Cook Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. The Darwin and its major tributary the Hatherton are often treated as one system, the Darwin–Hatherton.Template:Sfn
- Byrd Glacier (Template:Coord), a major glacier in Antarctica, about Template:Convert long and Template:Convert wide. It drains an extensive area of the Antarctic plateau, and flows eastward to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf.Template:Sfn
Features
- Turnstile Ridge (Template:Coord), a ridge about Template:Convert long, lying Template:Convert north of Westhaven Nunatak at the northwest extremity of the Britannia Range.Template:Sfn
- Derrick Peak (Template:Coord), a prominent ice-free peak, Template:Convert high, overlooking the south side of Hatherton Glacier, Template:Convert west of the north end of Johnstone Ridge.Template:Sfn
- Mount Henderson (Template:Coord), a prominent mountain, Template:Convert high, standing Template:Convert west of Mount Olympus.Template:Sfn
- Ravens Mountains (Template:Coord), a symmetrical group of mountains on the west side of Hughes Basin. The mountains are Template:Convert long and rise to Template:Convert in Doll Peak.Template:Sfn
- Hughes Basin (Template:Coord), a large basinlike névé which is bounded except to the south by Ravens Mountains, Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush. The feature is Template:Convert long and the ice surface descends north–south from Template:Convert near Mount Olympus to Template:Convert near Darnell Nunatak, where there is discharge to Byrd Glacier.Template:Sfn
- Mount McClintock (Template:Coord), the highest mountain (Template:Cvt) in the Britannia Range, surmounting the south end of Forbes Ridge, Template:Convert east of Mount Olympus.Template:Sfn
- Mount Aldrich (Template:Coord), a massive, somewhat flat-topped mountain standing at the east side of Ragotzkie Glacier.Template:Sfn