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Pensacola Mountains (Antarctica)

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Geographic headingPensacola Mountains (Antarctica)
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Geographic subdivision usageAntarctica--Pensacola Mountains
See alsoMountains--Antarctica
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Found inWork cat.: NUCMC data from Univ. of West Fla., Spec. Coll. for Pensacola Mountains research materials, undated (Antarctica)
GNIS, May 8, 2000 (Pensacola Mountains; 83⁰45ʹS, 055⁰00ʹW; large group of mountain ranges and peaks, extending 280 mi. in a NE-SW direction, comprising the Argentina Range, Forrestal Range, Dufek Massif, Cordiner Peaks, Neptune Range, Patuxent Range, Rambo Nunataks and Pecora Escarpment; discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of a transcontinental nonstop plane flight by personnel of USN Operation Deep Freeze I; named by US-ACAN for the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, in commemoration of the historic role of that establishment in training aviators of the U.S. Navy)
GNIS (summit; 83°45ʹ00ʺS 055°00ʹ00ʺW)