COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

between Neptune Range and Argentina Range, Pensacola Mountains, rising to 2030m at Mount Lechner, was photographed from the air, 13 January 1956, on a flight by a USN Neptune aircraft from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and return; named after USS Forrestal, first USN supercarrier ([referring to E half of Pensacola Mountains] NGS map, 1957b; AGS map, 1962b; [as now defined] Schmidt and Ford, 1963, map p.21; APC, 1964, p.3; USGS sheets SU 21-25/10 and 14, 1969). Diamonte [sic] Mountain Range, incorrectly shown in 83°15'S 44°00'W but presumably referring to part of this feature, after the Argentine town of Diamante (Ronne, 1961, map Front.). Khrebet Forrestal (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The range was further photographed from the air by USN in 1964. Montes Piedrabuena, apparently referring to S part of this feature, after Coronel de Marina Luis Piedrabuena (1833-83), pioneer of Argentine sovereignty in the south (Argentina. MM, NM 21/1.xi.1964). Cordillera Diamante, apparently referring to central part of this feature (Argentina. MM, NM 21/1.xi.1964; Pierrou, 1970, p.313). The range was surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66. Montes Comandante Luis Piedrabuena, apparently referring to central part of this feature (Pierrou, 1970, p.257). Cordillera Forrestal, apparently referring to S part of this feature (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter F).

A largely snow-covered mountain range, about 65 mi long, standing E of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in 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 the Weddell Sea and return. Named by the US-ACAN after the USS Forrestal, first supercarrier of the U.S. Navy. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by USGS in 1967 and 1968 from U.S. Navy tricamera aerial photographs taken in 1964.