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==Location== [[File:C85120s1 Ant.Map Wisconsin Range.jpg|thumb|Wisconsin Range]] [[File:C86120s1 Ant.Map Caloplaca Hills.jpg|thumb|Southern tip of the range in north of map]] The Wisconsin Range is east of the [[Reedy Glacier]] and south of the [[Horlick Ice Stream]] and the [[Shimizu Ice Stream]]. The Wisconsin Plateau is in the southeast of the range. The southeast of the range borders the west of the Wisconsin Plateau and overlooks the [[Olentangy Glacier]]. From south to north it includes Polygon Spur, Tillite Spur, Red Spur and Mount Huckaby. The southern massif lies between Olentangy Glacier and [[Norfolk Glacier]] both tributaries of the Reedy Glacier. It includes Mount McNaughton, Mount Bolton, Goodwin Peak, Haworth Mesa and Sisco Mesa.{{sfn|Wisconsin Range USGS}} The Wisconsin Range covers about {{convert|8600|km2}} when it is taken to also include the [[Watson Escarpment]] south of the [[Kansas Glacier]], the [[Quartz Hills]], the [[Caloplaca Hills]] and the [[Cleveland Mesa]], all in the Queen Maud Mountains to the west of the Reedy Glacier.{{sfn|Faure|Mensing|2010|p=201}} The southwest part of the range includes Mount Soyat, Mickler Spur and Mount Sweatt between Norfolk Glacier and [[Hueneme Glacier]], another tributary of Reedy Glacier. It includes Griffith Peak, Mount Frontz and Mount Vito to the north of Hueneme Glacier. The central portion of the range extends from west to east and includes Brinton Nunatak, the Ford Nunataks, Martens Peak, Murtaugh Peak, Mount Miashew, Faure Peak, Walters Peak and Lentz Buttress. The Gierloff Nunataks, McCrilliss Nunatak and Gibbon Nunatak are north of the central portion.{{sfn|Wisconsin Range USGS}} The north of the range is north of the [[Davisville Glacier]], a tributary of the Horlick Ice Stream, and mostly south of the [[Quonset Glacier]], a tributary of the Davisville Glacier that rises in Perkins Canyon. From west to east in includes Saunders Rock, Feeley Peak, Sheets Peak, Moran Buttress, Koopman Peak and Ruseski Buttress. Isolated features to the north of Quonset Glacier include, from west to east, Spiers Nunatak, Garczynski Nunatak, Baker Nunatak, Mount Brecher, Angus Nunatak, Mount LeSchack, Spencer Nunatak and Widich Nunatak.{{sfn|Wisconsin Range USGS}} Portions of the Wisconsin Range are recorded in aerial photography obtained by United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946β47. The Horlick Mountains, including the Wisconsin Range, were completely surveyed by [[United States Antarctic Research Program]] (USARP) parties, and was mapped from United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959β64.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=345}}
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