The Supporters Range is a rugged 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 mountain

Mountain

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s in Antarctica, 40 km long, bordering the eastern side of Mill Glacier

Mill Glacier

Mill Glacier is a tributary glacier, 16 km wide, flowing northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and Antarctic historian.-See also:* List of glaciers in...

, from Keltie Glacier

Keltie Glacier

Keltie Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier, 48 km long, draining from Pain Névé southwest around the southern extremity of the Commonwealth Range, and then northwest to enter Beardmore Glacier at Ranfurly Point....

 in the north to Mill Stream Glacier

Mill Stream Glacier

Mill Stream Glacier is a tributary glacier, about 10 nautical miles wide, flowing west between Supporters Range and Otway Massif to enter Mill Glacier. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition in association with Mill Glacier....

 in the south.

So named by the New Zealand GSAE (1961-62) because several peaks of the range are named after supporters of Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE was a notable explorer from County Kildare, Ireland, who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...

's 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).

Among the mountains in this range is Mount Iveagh

Mount Iveagh

Mount Iveagh is a broad mountain in the Supporters Range, overlooking the east side of Mill Glacier 5 miles northwest of Mount White...

, a 3422 metre peak on the east side of the Beardmore Glacier

Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest glaciers in the world, with a length exceeding 160 km . The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Alexandra and Commonwealth ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and was one...

. Mount Iveagh was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS was an Irish philanthropist and businessman.-Public life:...

, of the firm of Guinness

Guinness

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, who helped finance the expedition.