COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

El nombre corresponde al del capitán general Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Presiden te de la República de Chile, quien viajó a la Antártica en el viaje presidencial a bordo del transporte "Aquiles" de la Armada de Chile, en 1977. Macizo de 1.949 metros de elevación, que se levanta a aproximadamente 30 millas al S del límite S del campo de hielos Filchner.

rising to 2030m W of Forrestal Range, N Pensacola Mountains, was seen from the air from a USN P2V Neptune patrol aircraft on a flight from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back, 12 January 1956; named after Rear-Adm. George John Dufek, USN (1903-77), Commander, USN Task Force 43, ODF, 1955-59 (covering first aircraft landing at the South Pole, q.v.), and Officer-in-charge, USARP, 1957-58; navigator in USS Bear of USAS; Commander of icebreaker task force establishing weather stations in Canadian Arctic, 1946 and 1948; member of USN Operation "Highjump", 1946-47 (Rear-Adm. Richard E. Byrd); author of Operation Deepfreeze (New York, 1957) ([in c.81°15'S 42°00'W] NGS map, 1957b; [in c. 82°36'S 51°30'W] AGS map, 1962b; APC, 1962, p.11; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheets SU 21-25/9 and 10, 1969; APC, 1977, p.11); again seen from the air in October 1957 and surveyed from the ground in December 1957 by US IGY personnel from "Ellsworth Station" (Thiel and others, 1958, p.10, 12 and Fig. 9). Massiv Dyufek (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Santa Teresila [sic] Range (Dufek Massif), referring to Argentine name (Ronne, 1961, map Frontispiece). Cordillera Santa Teresita, so called after St Theresa (Argentina. MM, NM 21/1.xi.1964; Pierrou, 1970, p.654). Massiv Dufek (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). Macízo Santa Teresita (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter S).

A rugged, largely snow-covered massif 27 mi long, standing W of the Forrestal Range in the N part of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 on a transcontinental patrol plane flight of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the vicinity of Weddell Sea and return, and named by the US-ACAN for R. Admiral George J. Dufek, USN (Dufek Coast, q.v.), in direct operational command of U.S. Navy Task Force 43 during that operation. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by USGS in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and U.S. Navy tricamera aerial photographs taken in 1964.