Otter Highlands

The Otter Highlands are a group of peaks and ridges in Coats Land, in the British Antarctic Territory. They reach 3,806 feet above sea level.

The range extends north-west to south-east for 17 nautical miles from Mount Lowe to Wyeth Heights, and is located west of Blaiklock Glacier. The Otter Highlands forming the west end of the Shackleton Range.

The ridge was surveyed by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1972 after the De Havilland Otter aircraft which supported the expedition, and which and made the first trans-Antarctic flight by a single-engined aircraft.

The range includes:

• Mount Lowe
• MacQuarrie Edge
• Mount Haslop
• Trey Peaks
• Mount Homard
• Mount Pivot
• Turnpike Bluff
• Wyeth Heights

Location

• Location map: 80°39’37"S, 29°58’38"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Otter Highlands