The Homerun Range is a northwest-trending mountain 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...

, 45 km (28 mi) long and 3 to 11 km (2 to 7 mi) wide, located east of Everett Range

Everett Range

Everett Range is a rugged, mainly ice-covered mountain range nearly 95 km long between the Greenwell and Ebbe glaciers in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica...

 at the heads of the Ebbe

Ebbe Glacier

Ebbe Glacier is a tributary glacier about 96 km long, draining northwest from the Homerun Range and Robinson Heights, and then WNW between Everett Range and Anare Mountains into Lillie Glacier...

 and Tucker

Tucker Glacier

Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, about 144 km long, flowing southeast between Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea...

 glaciers in 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...

, Antarctica.

The name derives from "Homerun Bluff," a field name of the southern party of NZFMCAE, 1962-63, used to denote a turning point in their traverse at this range to the airlift point and the return to Scott Base

Scott Base

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. The entire range was mapped by the USGS

United States Geological Survey

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 from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63.

Mountains of this range include Mount LeResche

Mount LeResche

Mount LeResche is a prominent mountain at the extreme north end of Homerun Range in the Admiralty Mountains, in the Victoria Land region of Antarctica. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960-63.The range was named by the Advisory...

 (2040m) and Mount Shelton

Mount Shelton

Mount Shelton is a mountain located just west of the upper part of Rastorfer Glacier in the east-central portion of the Homerun Range, Admiralty Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ...

(2485m).