Patuxent Range
The Patuxent Range is a mountain range in Queen Elizabeth Land in the British Antarctic Territory, and the southernmost of the neighbouring ranges which are collectively known as the Pensacola Mountains. It rises to 7,005 feet on the Mackin Table.
This range comprises the Thomas Hills, the Anderson Hills, the Mackin Table and various nunataks and ridges. It is bounded by the Foundation Ice Stream, the Academy Glacier and the Patuxent Ice Stream.
These mountains were discovered and partially photographed on 13 January 1956 in the course of a transcontinental, nonstop flight by personnel of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound (in New Zealand's Ross Dependency) to Weddell Sea and return.
The mountains were named by the Americans for the Naval Air Station Patuxent River at Cedar Point, Maryland.
Contents
Features
- O'Connell Nunatak (84°42’58"S, 65°7’59"W), a peaked rock nunatak reaching 3,970 feet, 6 nautical miles south-southeast of Mount Murch, the latter in the southern Anderson Hills
- Shurley Ridge (84°54’45"S, 65°22’27"W), a partly snow-covered ridge projecting from the south-west side of Mackin Table, six miles south-east of Snake Ridge
- Mount Tolchin (85°5’60"S, 65°12’0"W), a mountain of 5,676 feet five miles south-west of Houk Spur at the south-west extremity of Mackin Table
- Mount Warnke (84°19’59"S, 64°49’59"W), a mountain of 3,000 feet, three miles north-east of Martin Peak in the Thomas Hills
- Mount Yarbrough (84°24’0"S, 66°0’0"W), a ridge-like mountain of 2,838 feet, two miles south-west of Nance Ridge in the Thomas Hills in the northern side of the range
Features
- The Anderson Hills
- The Thomas Hills
Location
- Location map: 84°42’58"S, 64°30’0"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Patuxent Range
