Argentina Range

The Argentina Range is a mountain range of rock peaks and bluffs in Queen Elizabeth Land in the British Antarctic Territory, and one of the ranges which are collectively known as the Pensacola Mountains.

This range of mountains is 42 miles long, standing 35 miles east of the northern part of Forrestal Range in the northeastern portion of the Pensacola Mountains. It rises to 3,035 feet at Mount Spann to the east of the Support Force Glacier.

The mountains were discovered and photographed on 13 January 1956, in the course of a transcontinental, nonstop flight by the United States Navy, as part of the Pensacola Mountains Project of 1965-66. Aerial photography by the United States Navy followed in 1967, and the mountain range was named after the Republic of Argentina, which has maintained a 'General Belgrano Station' on Filchner Ice Shelf since 1955. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by United States Geological Survey in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and from US Navy tricameral photographs taken in 1964.

Mountains and features

Geographical features include:

• The Schneider Hills
• The Panzarini Hills
• Blackwall Ice Stream
• Recovery Glacier
• San Martín Glacier
• Support Force Glacier
• Whichaway Nunataks

Location

• Location map: 82°21’45"S, 42°10’19"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Argentina Range
• Faure, Gunter; Mensing, Teresa M.: 'The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water', p 246