Pensacola Mountains
The Pensacola Mountains are a large group of mountain ranges and peaks in Queen Elizabeth Land within the British Antarctic Territory. The mountains extend for 280 miles in a NE-SW direction (around the location 83°45'S 55°W and contain a number of ranges within them; 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.
The mountains were discovered and photographed on 13 January 1956 in the course of a transcontinental nonstop plane flight by personnel of US Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and return. They were named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after the United States Naval Air Station at Pensacola in Florida, in commemoration of the historic role of that establishment in training aviators of the US Navy. The mountains were mapped in detail by United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy air photos, 1956-67.
