Queen Alexandra Range is a mountain range in Victoria Land, part of Ross dependency, Antarctica. It lies along the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. Its highest peak, Mount Kirkpatrick, rises to a height of 14,856 feet (4,528 meters). Another mountain, Mount Falla, is topped by flat-lying, basaltic lava flows.
The range was discovered in 1908 by the English Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and named in honor of Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. In 1969, scientists discovered fossils in the area confirming that land animals with backbones lived on the Antarctic continent hundreds of millions of years ago when it lay nearer the equator and its climate was tropical.
