Porthos Range
The Porthos Range is the second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains of Antarctica, 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]
Mountains
Mount Kerr (70°26′S 65°38′E), a mountain about 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) south of Mount Creighton in the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica, was plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos of 1965, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for A.G. Kerr, a physicist at Mawson Station in 1967.[2]
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
References
- "Porthos Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- "Mount Kerr". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
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 incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Porthos Range". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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