The Gutenko Mountains () are a large, scattered group of hills,

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

s and small mountains at the south end of

Dyer Plateau Dyer Plateau () is a broad ice-covered upland of north-central Palmer Land, bounded to the north by Fleming Glacier and Bingham Glacier, and to the south by the Gutenko Mountains. It is buttressed by Goettel Escarpment. The plateau was first exp ...

in central

Palmer Land Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...

, Antarctica. The feature includes the Elliott Hills, the

Rathbone Hills Rathbone Hills () is a line of low hills or nunataks, 14 nautical miles (26 km) long and trending east–west, located 4 nautical miles (7 km) north of Guthridge Nunataks in the Gutenko Mountains of central Palmer Land. Mapped by United S ...

, the

Guthridge Nunataks The Guthridge Nunataks () are a scattered group of sharp peaked nunataks and small mountains, about long and wide, midway between the Rathbone Hills and the Blanchard Nunataks in the Gutenko Mountains of central Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were ...

and the

Blanchard Nunataks The Blanchard Nunataks () are an east–west trending group of nunataks, about long, marking the south end of the Gutenko Mountains in central Palmer Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974, the group was named by the Adviso ...

. These mountains were seen from the air during flights of November 21 and December 23, 1947, by the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

and are named for Sigmund Gutenko,

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, chief commissary steward with the expedition. The mountains were mapped in detail by the

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in 1974.

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Mountain ranges of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub