The Worcester Range is a mountain range in Antarctica standing between the Skelton

Skelton Glacier

Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.-Discovery and naming:...

 and Mulock Glacier

Mulock Glacier

Mulock Glacier in Antarctica is a heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf 40 km south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.Named by the NZAPC in association with Mulock Inlet....

s on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf

Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...

. Probably named after the training ship in the Thames, in which many officers of early British Antarctic expeditions trained. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE), 1901-04. The name seems to have been first applied on the charts of the British Antarctic Expedition

Nimrod Expedition

The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole...

, 1907-09.

The range is part of the Prince Albert-McMurdo Range, which also includes the Prince Albert Mountains

Prince Albert Mountains

The Prince Albert Mountains are a major mountain group in Antarctica over 320 km long. Located in Victoria Land, they run north-south between the Priestley and Ferrar glaicers....

, in the Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

 region of New Zealand's Ross Dependency

Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south...

 claim. These ranges are part of the larger Transantarctic Mountains

Transantarctic Mountains

The three largest mountain ranges on the Antarctic continent are the Transantarctic Mountains , the West Antarctica Ranges, and the East Antarctica Ranges. The Transantarctic Mountains compose a mountain range in Antarctica which extend, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare...

, which span the continent.

The highest peak in the range is Mount Harmsworth, a prominent ice-covered peak, 2765 metres (9,072 ft), at the NW side of the head of Delta Glacier

Delta Glacier

Delta Glacier is a glacier descending steeply from the Worcester Range between Northcliffe Peak and Delta Bluff to enter the west side of Skelton Glacier. It was provisionally named "Cascade Glacier" because of its broken lower icefalls by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic...

. Discovered by the BrNAE and named for Sir Alfred Harmsworth

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market.His company...

, later Viscount Northcliffe, a generous contributor to the expedition.

Other notable peaks include Mount Marks

Mount Marks

Mount Marks is a broad ice-covered mountain rising to 2600 m 5 nautical miles north-northwest of Mount Speyer in Worcester Range. Named after Rodney Marks , an Australian citizen who died while conducting astrophysical research as a member of the 2000 winter party at the National Science...

 (~2600m), named after Rodney Marks

Rodney Marks (astrophysicist)

Rodney Marks was an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working in Antarctica.-Life and death:Marks was born in Geelong, Australia and educated at the University of Melbourne, later obtaining a PhD from the University of New South Wales.Marks had wintered over at the...

, and Portal Mountain

Portal Mountain

Portal Mountain is a large mountain in Antarctica. The mountain has a broad ice-capped summit, and stands south of the Lashly Mountains, on the south side of the main stream of the Skelton Glacier where it leaves the polar plateau....

(2555m).