Feature Name: Argentina Range
Feature Class: Range
Country Code: AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID: 566
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds:
822000S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds:
0420000W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees: -82.3333333
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees: -42
Elevation: No data
Decision Year: 01/01/1968
Description: A range of rock peaks and bluffs, 42 mi long, lying 35 mi E of the N part of Forrestal Range in the NE portion of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of a U.S. Navy (USN) transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) 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 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and U.S. Navy (USN) tricamera photographs taken in 1964.
Date Created: No data
Date Edited: No data
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