
Gutenko Mountains
(Dyer Plateau)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 71° 41' 15" S 64° 54' 40" W
rising to c. 1700m SW of Dyer Plateau, central Palmer Land, and including from N to S Elliott Hills, Rathbone Hills, Guthridge Nunataks and Blanchard Nunataks, were seen from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 21 November and 23 December 1947; roughly mapped in c.72 15'S 64 15'W and named Gutenko Mountains after the Gutenko family of Baltimore, Maryland, of which Sigmund Gutenko, the United States Navy, served as chief commissary steward with the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. The mountains were photographed from the air by the United States Navy, 1966-69, and surveyed from the ground by the British Antarctic Survey from 'Stonington Island', 1971-72.