Royal Society Range
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View of the Royal Society Range from the Ross Sea
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| Highest point | |
| Peak | Mount Lister |
| Elevation | 13,205 ft (4,025 m) |
| Coordinates | 78°10′00″S 162°40′00″E / 78.16667°S 162.66667°ECoordinates: 78°10′00″S 162°40′00″E / 78.16667°S 162.66667°E |
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Map depicting the location of the Royal Society Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica
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| Continent | Antarctica |
| State/Province | Victoria Land, Antarctica |
| Parent range | Transantarctic Mountains |
The Royal Society Range (78°10′S 162°40′E / 78.167°S 162.667°E) is a majestic mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at 4,025 metres (13,205 ft), the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the western shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar glaciers. Other notable local terrain features include Allison Glacier, which descends from the west slopes of the Royal Society Range into Skelton Glacier.
The range was probably first seen by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841.
The range was explored by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) under Robert Falcon Scott, who named the range after the Royal Society and applied names of its members to many of its peaks. For example, Mount Lister was named for Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society, 1895-1900. The Royal Society provided financial support to the expedition and its members had assisted on the committee which organized the expedition.
The Royal Society Range consists of a Precambrian igneous and meta-igneous basement complex overlain by Devonian- to Triassic-age sandstones, siltstones and conglomerates of the Beacon Supergroup which dip shallowly westward away from the Ross Sea coast. The entire region is cut by north-south trending longitudinal faults, east-west trending transverse faults, and structurally related dike swarms.
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