The Herbert Range is a mountain range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg and Strom glaciers.
Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Walter W. Herbert, leader of the Southern Party of the New Zealand GSAE (1961–62) which explored the Axel Heiberg Glacier area.
Features
Geographical features include:
- Axel Heiberg Glacier
- Bell Peak
- Bigend Saddle
- Cohen Glacier
- Mount Balchen
- Mount Betty
- Mount Cohen
- Sargent Glacier
- Strom Glacier
- Zigzag Bluff
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