Athos Range
| Athos Range | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 13 ′ S , 64 ° 50 ′ E | |
The Athos Range is the northernmost mountain range in the Prince Charles Mountains in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It extends in an east-west orientation over a length of around 65 kilometers on the northern flank of the Scylla Glacier and consists of a large number of mountain peaks and nunataks .
The Athos Range was first visited in November 1955 by participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Béchervaise (1910-1998). Further exploratory marches into the region took place from 1956 to 1957. The mountain range is named after one of the three main characters from Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Three Musketeers . The name Moonlight Range proposed by the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012) did not prevail.
Web links
- Athos Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Athos Range on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bewsher, William Gordon (Bill) (1924-2012) . Entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (accessed January 5, 2016).
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 86 (English).