The Argentina Range is a mountain range of rock peaks and bluffs, long, lying east of the northern part of Forrestal Range in the northeastern portion of the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956, in the course of a US Navy transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return.
Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Argentina, which for many years from 1955 maintained a scientific station on the Filchner Ice Shelf at the General Belgrano or Ellsworth Station site. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by United States Geological Survey in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and from US Navy tricameral photographs taken in 1964.
Features
Geographical features include:
Schneider Hills
Panzarini Hills
Other features
Blackwall Ice Stream
Recovery Glacier
San Martín Glacier
Support Force Glacier
Whichaway Nunataks
Further reading
Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water, P 246 RYSZARD WRONA, Cambrian microfossils from glacial erratics of King George Island, Antarctica, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (1): 13–56.
External links
Argentina Range on USGS website
Argentina Range on AADC website
Argentina Range on SCAR website
References
Mountain ranges of Queen Elizabeth Land
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