Warren Range
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Warren Range is a range about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long just west of Boomerang Range
Boomerang Range
The Boomerang Range, , is a narrow mountain range on the western side of the Skelton Glacier and Skelton Neve, Antarctica. The range is curved like a boomerang, and extends generally north-south for about 25 km. It was mapped and named in 1957 by geologists in the New Zealand party of the...

, with which it lies parallel, in Oates Land
Oates Land
Oates Land is a wedge-shaped segment of East Antarctica stretching along and inland from the Oates Coast. Part of the Australian claim to the Antarctic, it extends between 153°45' E and 150° E, forming a wedge between 60° S and the South Pole. It is bounded in the east by the Ross Dependency and in...

. Discovered by the Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...

 (1956–58), which called the highest summit "Mount Warren
Mount Warren
Mount Warren is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Mount Warren is the third highest peak in the range and the fourth in the state. The summit is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest and rises above several glaciers, the best known being...

" after Guyon Warren, a member of the party in 1957-58. To avoid confusion with another mountain
Mountain
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of the same name, the name Warren has instead been applied to the whole range.
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