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  2. Mar 9, 2023 · Antarctica is dominated by three major mountain range systems. The first is the Antarctandes, aka the Antarctic Peninsula Cordillera, which runs the full length of the Antarctic Peninsula in what's known as Graham and Palmer Land (see map below).

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  3. Apr 22, 2024 · Geography. The Mountain Ranges & Mountains Of Antarctica. April 22nd, 2024. •. 8 min read. Jump to Section. Antarctic Mountain Ranges & Summits. The Ellsworth Mountains. The Transantarctic Mountains. The Antarctic Peninsula Cordillera. Other Mountain Ranges of East Antarctica. Antarctica’s Ice-Buried Ranges. The Volcanoes of Ross Island.

  4. The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land. These mountains divide East Antarctica and West Antarctica.

  5. Transantarctic Mountains, mountain system subdividing the Antarctic continent into an eastern (East Antarctica) and a western (West Antarctica) region. The Transantarctic Mountains stretch for more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from Victoria Land to the shores of the Weddell Sea. Rising to 14,856.

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  6. May 14, 2024 · These mountains form a flat-topped massif that rises gently from beneath the ice sheet to the south, and to the north drops 3,000 feet into a valley between two major ridge systems.

  7. The Banzare, Sabrina, and Budd Law Dome Coasts. Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by the Transantarctic Mountains, close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. Western Antarctica and Eastern Antarctica correspond roughly to the western and eastern hemispheres relative to the Greenwich meridian. [note 1]

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