Porthos Range
The Porthos Range is the second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, extending for about 30 miles in an east-to-west direction between Scylla Glacier and Charybdis Glacier. First visited in December 1956 by the ANARE southern party under W.G. Bewsher and named after Porthos, a character in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.[1]
Features
Geographical features include:
- Charybdis Glacier
- Corry Massif
- Crohn Massif
- Cutcliffe Peak
- Hulcombe Ridge
- Martin Massif
- Morgan Ridge
- Mount Canham
- Mount Creighton
- Mount Eather
- Mount Gaston
- Mount Gavaghan
- Mount Kerr
- Mount Kirkby
- Mount Leckie
- Mount Lied
- Mount McCarthy
- Mount Mervyn
- Mount Pollard
- Mount Small
- Mount Tarr
- Mount Ware
- O'Shea Peak
- Thomas Nunataks
- Webster Peaks
- Whitworth Ridge
- Wignall Peak
- Wignall
gollark: It really would be easier to just say "passwords do not match".
gollark: ... why the error codes?
gollark: > Now, question is: If you perform multiple quantum bogosorts in a row and your universe exists still, does that prove the existance of multiple universes?<@236628809158230018> No, anthropic principle, if your universe is unexisted you just won't see the results.
gollark: Bees.
gollark: The advantage of market systems and other decentralized stuff is that they can allocate resources reasonably well without having centralization, which has issues like computing power and not really being able to consider people's individual wants well.
References
- "Porthos Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
External links
- Australian Antarctic Division
- Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
- United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.