COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

N-most feature of Panzarini Hills (q.v.), Argentina Range, Pensacola Mountains, rising to c.925m, was seen from the air by AAE in December 1955, reported in c.82°30'S 40°00'W, and called Nunatak Santa Fé after the Argentine province of Santa Fé (Argentina. IAA map, [1959d]; Pierrou, 1970, p.653); photographed from the air by USN on a trans-Antarctic flight, 13 January 1956, and, in association with the names of other crew members on this flight grouped in the area, named after Staff Sgt Robert C. Spann, USMC, navigator of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft ([in 81°45'S 39°00'W] AGS map, 1959; USBGN, 1960, p.8; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/11, 1968; APC, 1974, p.6). Gora Spann (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Santa Fé Nunataks (Ronne, 1961, map Front.). Pico Santa Fé ([in 82°30'S 40'00'W] Argentina. IGM map. 1966; [co-ordinates corrected] Argentina. AA, NM 11/1.vi.1979). Santa Fé Peak, Pic Santa Fé, Picco Sante Fé, Santa Fé-Spitze (Fourcade, 1969, p.3-4).

A mountain, 925 m, marking the N extremity of the Panzarini Hills and the Argentina Range, at the NE end of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of a USN transcontinental nonstop plan flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for Staff Sgt. Robert C. Spann, USMC, navigator of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft during this flight.