Shackleton Range
(Coats Land)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 80° 30' S 25° Wbetween Slessor Glacier and Recovery Glacier, extending from 30°30'W in Coats Land to 19°00'W in Dronning Maud Land (as Shackletonkjeda), rising to 1875m at Holmes Summit (q.v.), and including from E to W Otter Highlands, Haskard Highlands, La Grange Nunataks, Fuchs Dome, Herbert Mountains, Shotton Snowfield, Read Mountains and Pioneers Escarpment. The range was possibly seen from the air by the Argentine Expedición Polar Antártica in December 1955; seen from the air by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 6 February 1956, and surveyed from the ground by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition at its W end in October 1957; named after Sir Ernest Shackleton (Mount Shackleton, q.v.), the name initially referring to the discovered part of the range between c. 22°00'W and 30°30'W. The range was photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1967 and further surveyed from the ground by the British Antarctic Survey from Halley, with support from the United States Navy C-130 Hercules aircraft, 1968-69 and 1969-70. The range was redefined to extend to the E-most nunataks of Pioneers Escarpment (q.v.) in the vicinity of Skiltvakta and Vindberget.