[1] The Shackleton Range is an ice-covered plateau between 1,200 and 1,600 metres (3,900 and 5,200 ft) high that rises between two large glaciers.

[3] The center of the range is covered by a long ice cap stretching from the Fuchs Dome in the west to Shotton Snowfield in the east, and bounded by cliffs as high as 400 metres (1,300 ft).

The Herbert Mountains are northwest of the snowfield, and further east the Pioneers Escarpment lies between it and the Slessor Glacier to the north.

Ice from a small area in the southwest of the snowfield flows south between the Read Mountains and the Stephenson Bastion into the Recovery Glacier.

[10] The Flett Crags formation, part of the Turnpike Bluff Group, mainly consists of slate, but contains some bands of quartzite and pebbly conglomerate.

[1] Download coordinates as: Isolated nunataks in the snowfield that are named on the 1983 United States Geological Survey map are (west to east):[4]

A castlelike nunatak rising to 1,590 metres (5,220 ft) to the southwest of Mount Dewar in Shotton Snowfield, Shackleton Range.

A nunatak 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Chevreul Cliffs, rising to 1,470 metres (4,820 ft) in the east part of Shotton Snowfield, Shackleton Range.