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Encyclopedia > Admiralty Mountains

The Admiralty Mountains (alternatively Admiralty Range) (71º45´S 168º30´E) is a large group of high mountains and individually named ranges and ridges in notheastern Victoria Land of Antarctica. This mountain group is bounded by the sea, and by the Dennistoun, Ebbe, and Tucker glaciers.


Discovered in January 1841 by Captain James Ross who named them for the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty under whose orders he served.




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