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The Prince Charles Mountains are a major group of mountains in Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica, including the Athos Range, the Porthos Range, and the Aramis Range. The highest peak is Mount Menzies, with a height of 3,228 m (10,591 ft). Other prominent peaks are Mount Izabelle and Mount Stinear. These mountains, together with other scattered peaks, form an arc about 420 km (260 mi) long, extending from the vicinity of Mount Starlight in the north to Goodspeed Nunataks in the south.
The Scott Mountains are a large number of isolated peaks lying south of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land of East Antarctica, Antarctica. Discovered on 13 January 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Sir Douglas Mawson. He named the feature Scott Range after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy. The term mountains is considered more appropriate because of the isolation of its individual features.
Athos Range is the northernmost range in the Prince Charles Mountains of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. The range consists of many individual mountains and nunataks that trend east–west for 40 miles (64 km) along the north side of Scylla Glacier.
On the continent of Antarctica, the Aramis Range is the third range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, situated 11 miles southeast of the Porthos Range and extending for about 30 miles in a southwest–northeast direction. It was first visited in January 1957 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) southern party led by W.G. Bewsher, who named it for a character in Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.
Wilson Bluff is a large, rather flat-topped rock outcrop at the south end of Lambert Glacier, 16 nautical miles (30 km) west-northwest of Mount Borland. This feature is 5 sq. mi in area and has a tail of moraine extending northeast for several miles. Plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956 and visited by an airborne field party led by G.A. Knuckey in October 1958. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Flight Lieutenant H.O. Wilson, RAAF, pilot at Mawson Station in 1958.
Mount Allport is a snow-free peak just west of Leslie Peak and about 5 nautical miles (9 km) south of Mount Cook of the Leckie Range. Plotted from ANARE air photos. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for B. Allport, radio officer at Mawson Station in 1964, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Leckie Range in 1965.
Mount Bergin is a mountain, 700 m, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) west of Mount Maslen in the Raggatt Mountains, Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. It was named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for R.D. Bergin, radio officer at Mawson station in 1956.
Mount Berrigan is a mountain 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of Budd Peak in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1957. It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for M.G. Berrigan, assistant diesel mechanic at Wilkes Station in 1961.
Watts Nunatak is an isolated nunatak lying 12 nautical miles (22 km) northwest of Mason Peaks in the Grove Mountains. Mapped from air photos, 1956–60, by ANARE. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for J.P. Watts, supervising technician (radio) at Mawson Station, 1962.
Mount Weller is a mountain, 1,080 m, standing west of Auster Glacier and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Reference Peak in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for G.E. Weller, a meteorologist at Mawson Station in 1961.
Mount Storer is a jagged peak in the Tula Mountains, 4 nautical miles (7 km) east-northeast of Mount Harvey. It was sighted from Observation Island in October 1956 by an ANARE party led by P.W. Crohn. It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for William Storer, a radio operator at Mawson Station in 1954.
Truman Nunatak is a small, partly snow-covered nunatak 7.5 nautical miles (14 km) north of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains. Mapped by ANARE from air photos, 1956–60. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for M.J. Truman, electrical fitter at Mawson Station, 1962.
Smith Peaks is a group of peaks standing close south of Mount Hordern in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37. Remapped by ANARE, 1957–60, and named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for F.A. Smith, diesel mechanic at Mawson Station, 1957.
Mount Selwood is a mountain 5 nautical miles (9 km) northeast of Pythagoras Peak, in the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for C.H.V. Selwood, a member of the crew of the Discovery during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) of 1929–31.
Mount Smethurst is a prominent mountain 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Mount Torckler and 29 nautical miles (50 km) southwest of Stor Hanakken Mountain in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken by ANARE aircraft in 1957 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for N.R. Smethurst, the officer-in-charge at Wilkes Station in 1961.
Tate Rocks is a three small nunataks lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) north-northwest of Mason Peaks in the Grove Mountains. Mapped from air photos, 1956–60, by ANARE Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for K.A. Tate, radio officer at Mawson Station, 1962.
Mount Torckler is a mountain 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Mount Smethurst and 28 nautical miles (50 km) southwest of Stor Hanakken Mountain in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1957 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for R.M. Torckler, a radio officer at Wilkes Station in 1961.
Mount Renouard is a mountain 3 nautical miles (6 km) south of Mount Keyser, in the east part of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1957 and was named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for H.E. von Renouard, a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1961.
Mount Cook is a mountain, roughly 1,900 m high, that is the highest point of the main massif of the Leckie Range in Antarctica. Approximately mapped by Norwegian cartographers on Norwegian whalers chart No. 3. Plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956, and first visited by G.A. Knuckey of ANARE in December 1956, when its position was fixed. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for B.G. Cook, geophysicist at Mawson station in 1958.
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- ↑ "Porthos Range". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- ↑ "Mount Kerr". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2013-04-29.
- ↑ "New bedrock geology of Mount Mervyn map sheet (106C/04) on Yukon".
