Aramis Range
| Aramis Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Abbs ( 2135 m ) | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 37 ′ S , 67 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Aramis Range is a mountain range about 50 kilometers long , which extends about 18 kilometers southeast of the Porthos Range in southwest-northeastern expansion in the Prince Charles Mountains in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land .
It was first visited in January 1957 by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012), who named it after one of the three main characters from Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Three Musketeers .
Web links
- Aramis Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aramis Range on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bewsher, William Gordon (Bill) (1924-2012) . Entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (accessed January 5, 2016).