The Ames Range is an Antarctic range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 of snow-covered, flat-topped, steep-sided mountain

Mountain

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s, extending in a N-S direction for 32 km (20 mi) and forming a right angle with the eastern end of the Flood Range

Flood Range

The Flood Range is an Antarctic range of large snow-covered mountains extending in an E-W direction for about 96 km and forming a right angle with the southern end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land....

 in Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...

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Discovered by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-41) and named by Richard E. Byrd for his father-in-law, Joseph Ames..