Guettard Range
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 23 ′ S , 63 ° 17 ′ W | |
The Guettard Range is a 65 km long, 16 km wide and up to 1700 m high mountain range on the Lassiter coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula.It extends northwest of the Bowman Peninsula between the Johnston and Irvine glaciers .
Aerial photographs of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the American polar explorer Finn Ronne were used to identify him. Survey work by the United States Geological Survey and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1961 to 1967 were used to map it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the French naturalist and geologist Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715–1786).
Web links
- Guettard Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guettard Mountains on geographic.org (English)