COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

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).

A large group of mountain ranges and peaks, extending 280 mi in a NE-SW direction, comprising the Argentina Range, Forrestal Range, Dufek Massif, Cordiner Peaks, Neptune Range, Patuxent Range, Rambo Nunataks and Pecora Escarpment. These mountain units lie astride the extensive Foundation Ice Stream and Support Force Glacier which drain northward to the Ronne Ice Shelf. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of a transcontinental nonstop plane flight by personnel of USN Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, in commemoration of the historic role of that establishment in training aviators of the U.S. Navy. The mountains were mapped in detail by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-67.