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The Argentina Range is a mountain range of rock peaks and bluffs, 68 km (42 mi) long, lying 56 km (35 mi) east of the northern part of Forrestal Range in the northeastern portion of the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956, in the course of a US Navy transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return.

Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names 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 United States Geological Survey in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and from US Navy tricameral photographs taken in 1964.

Features

Geographical features include:

Schneider Hills

Panzarini Hills

Other features

Further reading

• Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water, P 246
• RYSZARD WRONA, Cambrian microfossils from glacial erratics of King George Island, Antarctica, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (1): 13–56.

External links

• Argentina Range on USGS website
• Argentina Range on AADC website
• Argentina Range on SCAR website

References

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Argentina Range

На других языках

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[de] Argentina Range

Die Argentina Range ist ein rund 70 km langer Gebirgszug im westantarktischen Queen Elizabeth Land. Er erstreckt sich etwa 56 km östlich des nördlichen Abschnitts der Forrestal Range im nordöstlichen Teil der Pensacola Mountains.

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- [en] Argentina Range

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[fr] Chaînon Argentina

Le chaînon Argentina est un massif de montagnes de la chaîne Transantarctique. Il culmine au mont Spann, à 925 m d'altitude. Il est parfois rattaché à la chaîne Pensacola. Il est composé des collines Schneider et des collines Panzarini.

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