Pensacola Mountains
(Queen Elizabeth Land)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 83° 45' S 55° Wrising to 2135m at Mackin Table (q.v.), extending from 82°00' to 85°45'S between 41°00' and 85°45'W, forming part of the Transantarctic Mountains (q.v.) and comprising Argentina Range, Forrestal Range, Dufek Massif, Cordiner Peaks, Neptune Range, Patuxent Range, Rambo Nunataks and Pecora Escarpment (q.v.), were in part photographed from the air by the United States Navy, 13 January 1956, on a non-stop reconnaissance flight by a P2V-2N Neptune aircraft (Lieut. Cdr J.H. Torbert, the United States Navy, Mount Torbert, q.v.) from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and back; named after the US Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida, established as a training centre for naval airmen before the First World War; further photographed from the air by US Air Force, 1957-58, and photographed from the air in their entirety by the United States Navy, 10 December 1961, and 1963-64; surveyed from the ground by the United States Geological Survey, 1961-62 and 1963-64.