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Pensacola Mountains

Place ID: 11090
Name ID: 110567

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

• Pensacola Mountains (Russia)
• Pensacola Mountains (United States of America)

Narrative

rising to 2135m at Mackin Table (q.v.), extending from 82°00' to 85°45'S between 41°00' and 85°45'W, forming part of the Transantarctic Mountains (q.v.) and comprising Argentina Range, Forrestal Range, Dufek Massif, Cordiner Peaks, Neptune Range, Patuxent Range, Rambo Nunataks and Pecora Escarpment (q.v.), were in part photographed from the air by USN, 13 January 1956, on a non-stop reconnaissance flight by a P2V-2N Neptune aircraft (Lieut. Cdr J.H. Torbert, USN, Mount Torbert, q.v.) from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and back; named after the US Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla, established as a training centre for naval airmen before World War I ([in c. 83°00'S 45°00'W] NGS map, 1957b; AGS map, 1959; APC, 1961, p.3; [in 83°30'S 53°00'W] APC, 1964, p.4; AGS map, 1970; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p.25; Australia. DND map, 1979); further photographed from the air by USAF, 1957-58, and photographed from the air in their entirety by USN, 10 December 1961, and 1963-64; surveyed from the ground by USGS, 1961-62 and 1963-64. Pensacolas (Schmidt and Ford, 1963, map p.21). Monts de Pensacola (Cailleux, 1963, p.10). Gory Pensakola (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Montes Pensacola (Argentina. IGM map, 1966).

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