Porthos Range
The Porthos Range is the second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, extending for about 30 miles in an east-to-west direction between Scylla Glacier and Charybdis Glacier. First visited in December 1956 by the ANARE southern party under W.G. Bewsher and named after Porthos, a character in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.[1]
References
- ↑ "Porthos Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
External links
- Australian Antarctic Division
- Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
- United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Porthos Range" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
Coordinates: 70°25′S 65°50′E / 70.417°S 65.833°E
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