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Shackleton Range

Coordinates: 80°30′S 025°00′W / 80.500°S 25.000°W / -80.500; -25.000
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The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising to Template:M to ft, it extends in an east-west direction for about Template:Km to mi between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers.

The range was named after Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (or "Shackleton's Expedition") of 1914-16.

Surveys

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), 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 (based at Halley Station) conducted further ground surveys with support from USN C-130 Hercules aircraft.

80°30′S 025°00′W / 80.500°S 25.000°W / -80.500; -25.000