David Range

[2] Download coordinates as: The range was first seen by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) on the evening of 4 January 1930 as a mirage on the horizon.

Sir Douglas Mawson, named the range for Professor Edgeworth David of the BANZARE committee.

Mount Hordern, about 4,954 feet high, is a conspicuous mountain lying about 5 miles southward of the Coates massif.

They have dark, weathered charnockite bedrock that is littered with light-colored quartz-rich, granitic gneiss glacial erratics.

[2] The erratics cover the lower slopes of the David Range and Mount Hordern, but are not found more than about 250 metres (820 ft) above the present-day ice surface.

[7] The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) formed about 34 million years ago, and seems to have persisted since then with periodic fluctuations in thickness between glacial and inter-glacial cycles.

[2] The ice surface appears have lowered by several hundred meters during the present interglacial.

[10] The David and Masson ranges divide the ice flow in the Framnes Mountains into three outlet glacial streams.

A prominent pointed peak, 1,120 metres (3,670 ft), standing in the David Range 1 mile (1.6 km) south-southwest of its north extremity.

Fang Peak is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Mount Parsons and is 1,032 metres (3,386 ft) high.

At 1,236 metres (4,055 ft) the mountain is the highest point of the northern ridge of the David Range.

A peak, 1,230 metres (4,040 ft), just north of Mount Coates in the David Range of the Frammes Mountains, Mac.

A peak, 1,280 metres (4,200 ft), just south of Mount Lawrence in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains.

Lichen species found on it include Biatorella antarctica, Lecanora rubina var.

A small nunatak, 1,030 metres (3,380 ft), standing in the center of Hordern Gap in the David Range, Framnes Mountains.

Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Metoppen (the middle peak).

A peak, 1,510 metres (4,950 ft), standing 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Mount Coates in the David Range.

A group of peaks standing close south of Mount Hortlem in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains.

A nunatak about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Mount Tritoppen in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains.

Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and called Steinen (the stone).

Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and named Tvitoppen (the twin peak).