[2] The range is in the Transantarctic Mountains System, and is located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica.

[2] Shackleton and his men, and a later expedition headed by Robert Falcon Scott, both collected rock samples from the range that contained fossils.

The discovery that multicellular life forms had lived so close to the South Pole was an additional piece of evidence that accompanied the publication (in 1910 and independently in 1912) of the theory of continental drift.

[citation needed] The Queen Alexandra Range is bounded by the Beardmore Glacier along its southeast edge, which divides it from the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains to the east.

Further north it is bounded by the Walcott Névé to the east, which separates the range from the Colbert Hills.