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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Argentina Range (RUS) 82° 20' 00.0" S 42° 00' 00.0" W Range
Name ID: 116861 Place ID: 489

Argentina Range (GBR) 82° 20' 00.0" S 42° 00' 00.0" W Range
Name ID: 107560 Place ID: 489

rising to 925m at Mount Spann (q.v.), E of Support Force Glacier, Pensacola Mountains, following survey on US Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66 (Huffman and Schmidt, 1966) and air photography by USN in 1967, was named after the Republic of Argentina which has maintained a "General Belgrano Station" on Filchner Ice Shelf (q.v.) since 1955 (USGS sheet SU 21-25/11, 1968; APC, 1974, p.3).

Argentina Range (USA) 82° 20' 00.0" S 42° 00' 00.0" W Range
Name ID: 121900 Place ID: 489

A range of rock peaks and bluffs, 42 mi long, lying 35 mi E of the N part of Forrestal Range in the NE portion of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of a USN transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN after Argentina, which for many years from 1955 maintained a scientific station on the Filchner Ice Shelf at the General Belgrano or Ellsworth Station site. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by USGS in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and USN tricamera photographs taken in 1964.

Nemesis Glacier (AUS) 70° 36' 00.0" S 67° 05' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 489 Place ID: 10150

A small glacier flowing through the centre of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered in January, 1957, by the ANARE southern party led by William G. Bewsher. Named after Homer''s Nemesis.

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