The Argentina Range is a

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of rock peaks and bluffs, long, lying east of the northern part of

Forrestal Range The Forrestal Range () is a largely snow-covered mountain range, about long, standing east of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on 13 January 1956 on a transcontinental patrol ...

in the northeastern portion of the

Pensacola Mountains The Pensacola Mountains are a large group of mountain ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Queen Elizabeth Land region of Antarctica. Geography They extend 450 km (280 mi) in a NE-SW direction. Subranges of the ...

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. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956, in the course of a US Navy transcontinental nonstop plane flight from

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and return. Named by the

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after

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, which for many years from 1955 maintained a scientific station on the

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at the General Belgrano or

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site. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by

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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

Blackwall Ice Stream Blackwall Ice Stream () is a slightly S-shaped Antarctic ice stream about long and wide. It descends from about to where it joins Recovery Glacier between the Argentina Range and the Whichaway Nunataks. It was named after Hugh Blackwall Evans ...

Recovery Glacier The Recovery Glacier () is a glacier flowing west along the southern side of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica. First seen from the air and examined from the ground by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957, it was so named because ...

San Martín Glacier Support Force Glacier is a major glacier in the Pensacola Mountains, draining northward between the Forrestal Range and Argentina Range to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy air p ...

Support Force Glacier Support Force Glacier is a major glacier in the Pensacola Mountains, draining northward between the Forrestal Range and Argentina Range to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy air p ...

Whichaway Nunataks Whichaway Nunataks () is a group of rocky nunataks extending for 7 nautical miles (13 km) and marking the south side of the mouth of Recovery Glacier. First seen from the air and visited in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedit ...

External links

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References

* Mountain ranges of Queen Elizabeth Land . {{QueenElizabethLand-geo-stub